This diary entry has triggered memories of these works, which might provide useful further reading:
- 'How Words Do Things With Us' - Ch. 8 of Daniel Dennett's seminal tome 'Consciousness Explained'.
- 'The Science of Storytelling' by Will Storr.
- New Scientist Essential Guide #12 - 'Consciousness - Understanding the Ghost in the Machine'
- 'Reality - A Very Short Introduction' by Jan Westerhoff. (One topic in the OUP's excellent VSI series, with 'Perception' and 'Cognitive Neuroscience' being two related others.)
Have you read Peter Mendlesund's "What We See When We Read"? That really fascinated me.
In my head, your prompt was giving me an image in my head that was a cross between Wombo and the Wall-E image.
No, but I should clearly have read that. I will have to seek it out. Thanks for the tip.
This diary entry has triggered memories of these works, which might provide useful further reading:
- 'How Words Do Things With Us' - Ch. 8 of Daniel Dennett's seminal tome 'Consciousness Explained'.
- 'The Science of Storytelling' by Will Storr.
- New Scientist Essential Guide #12 - 'Consciousness - Understanding the Ghost in the Machine'
- 'Reality - A Very Short Introduction' by Jan Westerhoff. (One topic in the OUP's excellent VSI series, with 'Perception' and 'Cognitive Neuroscience' being two related others.)
Finally – just for fun – test how accurate the hallucination machine inside your own skull is: https://youtu.be/vJG698U2Mvo?si=GFxRV4m1cJKSN5NA
Interesting… neat thoughts