TEDxHalifax - Evan Jones - Belief is not Binary

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“As we struggle to understand fiction in every form it took before us, I challenge all of you to look differently on those interactive performances as a new form of fiction one that integrates us so deeply into the story that even suspending our disbelief isn't enough, it's one that helps change what it means to believe.”

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"We’ll come to terms with it through the same slow process that we’ve done in the past that brought words, then images, then sounds into the playground of fiction. So I’m excited to watch the next ten years unfold because as the technology surrounds us, I know deep down that the stories will too. At first they may look like silly make believe or a foolish devotion to gain more of that doesn’t really exist but that’s normal it happens every time.”

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“I choose to immerse myself in this fiction because that’s the role that the story has asked me to fulfill…My role pushes the story forward…I’m responsible for the story. I’m on stage. Being an actor is to believe that your performance is really happening, to immerse yourself in it because investing in that role makes the story stronger…It’s an enjoyable experience and it’s one that mainstream media hasn’t been able to incorporate because the technologies just haven’t caught up yet."

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“What I'm proposing today is that interactive stories require us to consider that there might be a state between passively suspending our disbelief and believing something all the way. I think what we're really seeing here is the performance of belief.”

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"So we've a spectrum but it's incomplete because we see the interactive stories require much more than just the suspension of disbelief. We jump too far ahead, we jump straight to belief. These silly people believe this is true. They've been tricked. They're bundle of letters; they think it's real.”

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“The issue is embedded directly in the word itself, inter-ACT-ive, the suspension of disbelief is just not enough to explain the actions of people while they're participating in a collaborative story."

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"I think so. But I think the confusion that we’re feeling right now is that interactive fiction looks so much different than books, radio, or television, and it looks different to the outsider…"

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“Each time a new platform emerged with the potential for telling stories, there was a moment where we needed to test out where the boundaries of reality and fiction met each other and I bet at some time somebody said something like this…are these news tool of the internet, cellphones, and games places where fiction is allowed to exist."

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“It’s almost as if we’re coming to terms with a new idea. We hadn’t figured out yet that words don’t always have to be true. We needed something in between belief and disbelief and it’s come to be known as suspension of disbelief…”

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"How do we understand something is false and still find meaning in it? It turns out that it hasn’t been easy. Nearly every step of the way, we struggle to understand what’s real and what’s not as technology enables us to spread stories through media.”

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"We strive to make these circles (diagram on screen with Truth and Belief circles and Knowledge as their area of intersection) overlap as much as possible so that we can test our beliefs against some objective truth. The simplistic view sets up a dichotomy where a wise man believes true things and disbelieves false things. Only a fool doesn’t believe the truth and even worse believes false information which is what makes fiction so interesting."

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“So what I came to realize is that our understanding of belief is changing over time. So let’s begin with the simplest situation. You either believe something or you disbelieve it… People believed so that they belonged… And why do we believe? We believe because we want to know things. Humans as a species are constantly searching for truth. As we heard earlier today, we do it through the stories that we tell."

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Nice. And kids are so great at that—suspending belief, immersing themselves in a world, acting a part with no hint of self-consciousness. I'm recalling the movie Rabbit Proof fence, whose DVD included a great behind-the-scenes feature on casting and directing the child actors, who were all non-professionals.