# How Much Reality Depends on Convincing Stories by Barnaby Marsh > “How much of what we call "reality" is ultimately grounded and instantiated in convincing communication and storytelling?” > **— Barnaby Marsh**, *2018 Edge Annual Question, question* ## Sources and Context - **Original Edge response:** [The Last Question — Barnaby Marsh](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/27525) — Barnaby Marsh's question in the 2018 Annual Question collection, posed rather than asserted as a conclusion. The Edge response page is the publication record for this exact question. - **Local archival entry:** [[research/Edge 2018 Full Quotation Curation|Edge 2018 Full Quotation Curation]] (EDGE2018-200). ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Edge|Edge]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Art is Long|The Art is Long]] - **Article:** [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]] - **Article:** [[articles/Digital Darwinism and the Invisible World of Machine Evolution|Digital Darwinism and the Invisible World of Machine Evolution]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Narrative Control|Narrative Control]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “How much of what we call "reality" is ultimately grounded and instantiated in convincing communication and storytelling?” — Barnaby Marsh, 2018 Edge Annual Question https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-barnaby-marsh-much-reality-depends-convincing-stories ```