Consciousness & Fiction: Erik Hoel
Musing Mind Podcast
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The Importance of Fiction in Consciousness
I think fiction is the most omnivorous of all art forms. You can put anything in a novel. Like Moby Dick is half just essays about whaling. In novels, it's kind of this portal out of that into this world where if I say there is a chair in the room,. or there is anger in the room, I am referring to both entities directly. And that is, I think, an incredibly special quality of novels. So what you're telling me is that your entire academic and professional career has been an extended research project for this book. Yes.
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