

You could say that n would also have to increase with time. I’m thinking you have a tribe of 10 then 1 dies then 9 people to remember that person. We can say as time goes on the tribe stays at 10 but the original 10 die off then n = 1. So you could turn n into a function of it then solve the equations to see if it prevents a divergence






We can get some stories from even before writing because oral traditions can carry stories till the invention of writing. That why I picked 50k years ago since I doubt stories could consistently last more than a few hundred years. I would consider writing that has been lost to time and destruction, and writing that need context outside of the story to be understood.