[ExI] Flash of insight...

[Darren Greer]

Writing fiction is "talking to yourself" and "listening to yourself" and
"playing parts" for a living. Somehow you hive off imaginary entities that
often have very little to do with your own sense of self, and are obviously
repurposed interior models of the kind we use in understanding and
extrapolating other people and situations.

I was going to make a similar response reading Jeff's post before I read
Damien's. I would like to add the the process of writing fiction, or just
having an imaginative conversation with yourself as several different
personas within your own mind, is sometimes an incredibly powerful and
transcendent experience. So much so that you can see how people may
occasionally get confused by this unique ability of the human mind and
ascribe it to something supernatural or other worldly or even chalk it up as
yet more evidence of that most ubiquitous and time-worn of spiritual
concepts: that of the human soul.

Darren

On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Damien Broderick <thespike at satx.rr.com>wrote:

> On 10/30/2010 4:52 PM, Jeff Davis wrote:
>
>  I hypothesize the
>> coordinated cross-talk of this multitude of neocortical back-and-forth
>> modules to be what we call consciousness.
>>
>
> I believe in the trade this is known as "society of mind."
>
> Writing fiction is "talking to yourself" and "listening to yourself" and
> "playing parts" for a living. Somehow you hive off imaginary entities that
> often have very little to do with your own sense of self, and are obviously
> repurposed interior models of the kind we use in understanding and
> extrapolating other people and situations.
>
> Damien Broderick
>
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