This whole article is nonsensical.<p>&gt;<i>&quot;If humans do someday migrate outward toward the stars, our narrative space will move like an expanding wave before us, a vanguard of the imagination.&quot;</i><p>What reason is there to think that &quot;narrative space&quot; has to expand when a species becomes space-faring?<p>&gt;<i>&quot;Our need for stories that help us find our way is too important to be left behind.&quot;</i><p>Why?<p>Are species or cultures that don&#x27;t need stories somehow inferior?<p>Do we really <i>need</i> stories?<p>&gt;<i>&quot;Knowing where you are in the world is fundamental to knowing who you are&quot;</i><p>How do you measure &quot;knowing who you are&quot;? Are people who &quot;know&quot;, better or more human than people who don&#x27;t?<p>How can anyone claim that anyone &quot;knows where they are&quot;? How many people could point their exact location on a galactic map? (Less than one in a million?)