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The writer in me wants to think that human beings have always told stories, that storytelling is an innately human quality (do animals have a way of telling/communicating stories? oral histories of some kind?), and that storytelling is necessary to existance. Whether or not that is factually true is something I can't prove.

I'm interested in what you have to say about morality - I don't think the I-function is the orgin of morality, though. I want to put the Bible in there somehow, and nature, and stories about good/evil. I guess the I-fuction and morality are wrapped up in each other and it's difficult to tell where one begins and the other ends. I would be interested to know different cultures' interpretations of morality, their stories about it and behind it, and how it has changed over time. Maybe that could somehow relate to the I-function as well?