<meta charset="utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5px; border-collapse: collapse; ">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.</span><div>
<font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 15px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 15px;">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</span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 15px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; "> 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</span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 15px;"> or other worldly or even chalk it up as yet more evidence</span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 15px;"> of that most ubiquitous and time-worn of spiritual concepts: that of the human soul.</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 18px; "><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 18px;">Darren<br>
</span></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Damien Broderick <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thespike@satx.rr.com">thespike@satx.rr.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On 10/30/2010 4:52 PM, Jeff Davis wrote:<br>
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I hypothesize the<br>
coordinated cross-talk of this multitude of neocortical back-and-forth<br>
modules to be what we call consciousness.<br>
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I believe in the trade this is known as "society of mind."<br>
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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.<br>
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