Yes. But.Yes we can learn from stories and ‘frame’ our attitude, value, and behavior to define ‘ourselves’ (after reasoning or experiencing ‘truth’ of the stories).

But, history, legend, folklore, even chronicle are classes of ‘views’ (of the authors or who pay the authors). There are stories with tell about events that really happened but from different views. Which stories are ‘truer’? Even ‘histories” (as we understand to have been reasoned, constructed, scrutinized and reviewed many times over) are merely collective views told and retold –not exactly.

Well, our DNAs (genes) with physical(energy)/chemical(valence bonds) do copy exactly most times but mutate at odd times. Mutations are DNAs, do copy again and again. So like (hi)stories, we have issues with versions of copies –intermingle (in quantum language –entangle). We have yet to solve the ‘simpler’ problems in quantum physics (real particles). Truth (reconstruction), perception (reckoning), measure (recording), relations (connecting),… of human affair seem much harder.