Ah, "testimony" and "personal narrative"!!! Okay: Gee, finally: Early in school, I was very interested in learning good information. For "fiction", my summa

Ah, "testimony" and "personal narrative"!!! Okay: Gee, finally: Early in school, I was very interested in learning good information. For "fiction", my summary was that it was by definition and its own admission not true so definitely not the information I was interested in. Later I guessed that maybe fiction could have some value as information if viewed it as suggestions or hypotheses about people, maybe actually valuable if the author had some unusually good insight -- information about people stands to be important, but people can be complicated and good insight when available might be about the best information we can hope for so far. For academic research in psychology, my brother tried that through his masters but changed to political science for his Ph.D. because of his summary of the psychology research -- had some solid results that applied to rats but not to humans. Then I complained: Reading fiction, (A) I was not sure what the author was claiming to be true and, (B) even if there was a good guess about the claims, the evidence is not very good. Then I noticed that I have some guesses about humans, and when I see fiction that agrees with such a guess I can start to conclude that at least the fiction writer was guessing that lots of his audience will agree with his guesses about humans. So, at least a reader of the fiction can come away with some evidence that some audience agrees with the guess about humans. Finally I settled on the description that mostly fiction was about entertainment, call it vicarious escapist fantasy emotional experience entertainment (VEFEEE)! Yup, and movies about Superman, Batman, and Spiderman can get a lot of revenue!