Hi Eugine,

One thing I noticed earlier about my post that you quoted is that I should've added that the positive emotion we get from new ideas is quite verifiable as a pleasure chemical in the brain (I think dopamine), so it didn't look like I was simply throwing new ideas in as positive emotion after the fact.

Anyway, it seems like you're saying good advice will help a story spread because it's more likely to be felt as right. And in one way that makes sense, but it's not always true and I wouldn't rely on that. Audiences very much enjoy things that have no chance of being true (like The Incredible Hulk or pretty much anything in the Avengers), as long as you make it believable enough that they can feel that it's true while they're watching...and the other positive emotions that you create with that thing can far outweigh something more mundane but accurate. (which is one way of explaining why the Hulk and other superheroes are so popular)

So I wouldn't agree that it helps to give good advice in a story. If we can find a way to make the good information believable to our audience, then great. But if we can't, then building a story around it will cause us to fail. We might succeed as scientists, since we have the best intentions and the best theory, but we will fail as storytellers.

I hope this makes sense.