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Paul Giamatti’s CHINWAG with Stephen Asma
The Function of Imagination and Consciousness
"I just feel like you should throw it back on them and be like, well, why is there art at all or creativity?" he says. "You find people who are struggling in the worst kind of poverty. They're using their imagination." It's interesting to think of these things as somehow creatively, imaginatively enriching in some way," she adds. 'It seems like we really use it just for dangerous shit' He continues: 'If you can think of like magic and the imagination, you feel like you have agency in the world.'
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