Terry Pratchett, the author of the Discworld series, once argued that a more fitting name for us than ‘homo sapiens’ (wise man) would be ‘pan narrans’ – or storytelling chimp. Humans understand the world more intuitively through stories than unstructured information and while we aren’t all wise, we all tell tales – some of them tall.
The end of the story?
The end of the story?
The end of the story?
Terry Pratchett, the author of the Discworld series, once argued that a more fitting name for us than ‘homo sapiens’ (wise man) would be ‘pan narrans’ – or storytelling chimp. Humans understand the world more intuitively through stories than unstructured information and while we aren’t all wise, we all tell tales – some of them tall.