> > It’s often been said in this regard that fictional literature is the original form of simulation modeling. > Do you know who said that? I'd like to read mo

> > It’s often been said in this regard that fictional literature is the original form of simulation modeling. > Do you know who said that? I'd like to read more about it. It’s an old idea that lurks on the fringes of academia but resurfaces every now and then to rear its fuzzy head. I think I first heard it in the late 1980s, saw it come back in the 1990s, and then disappear until the mid-2000s when people started talking about it again. Google scholar notes that Raymond A. Mar (York University) and Keith Oatley (University of Toronto) were writing about it in cognitive psychology at least twenty years ago, but I suspect it’s a topic in computational narratology in some way. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Oatley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Oatley "[Fiction] is simulation that runs on minds of readers just as computer simulations run on computers".