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20:3920:39, 16 February 2026 diff hist +3,562 N The Intentional Stance Created page with "== 1. Setting Off on the Right Foot == * The Manifest Image - Our nervous systems were designed to make the distinctions we need swiftly and reliably, to bring under single sensory rubrics the relevant common features in our environment, and to ignore what we can usually get away with ignoring. ** We have it thanks to extraordinarily efficient and reliable systems of expectation-generation. ** Compare this to the scientific image * We make sense of each other by adoptin..." Tag: Visual edit
20:1720:17, 16 February 2026 diff hist +45 Books →Currently Reading Tag: Visual edit

21:4921:49, 11 February 2026 diff hist +5,246 Why We Read Fiction →Part II: Tracking Minds Tag: Visual edit
18:5018:50, 11 February 2026 diff hist +5,805 N Why We Read Fiction Created page with "== Part I: Attributing Minds == * We engage in mind-reading when: ** We ascribe to a person a certain mental state on the basis of her observable action. ** We interpret our own feelings based on our proprioceptive awareness. ** We intuit a complex state of mind based on a limited verbal description ** We compose an essay, a lecture, a movie, a song, a novel, or an instruction for an electrical appliance and try ot imagine how this or that segment of our target audience..." Tag: Visual edit

19:2519:25, 24 January 2026 diff hist +687 N Unnatural Voices Created page with "== 1. Introduction: Transgressing Self and Voice - Contemporary Fiction and the Death of the Narrator == * == 2. "At First You Feel a Bit Lost": The Varieties of Second Person Narration == * == 3. Class and Consciousness: "We" Narration from Conrad to Postcolonial Fiction == * == 4. I etcetera: Multiperson Narration and the Range of Contemporary Narrators == * == 5. Three Extreme Forms of Narration and a Note on Postmodern Unreliability == * == 6. Unnatural Nar..." Tag: Visual edit
19:1819:18, 24 January 2026 diff hist +154 Books →Currently Reading Tag: Visual edit
19:1319:13, 24 January 2026 diff hist +13 Films →2026 Tag: Visual edit
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14:1114:11, 10 January 2026 diff hist +3,646 How the World Made the West →Introduction Tag: Visual edit
13:3313:33, 10 January 2026 diff hist +876 N How the World Made the West Created page with "== Introduction == == 1. A Single Sail == == 2. The Palace of Minos == == 3. The Amber Routes == == 4. The Erupting Sea == == 5. Band of Brothers == == 6. Alphabet City == == 7. Regime Change == == 8. I Am Not Your Servant == == 9. Through the Pillars == == 10. The Invention of Greece == == 11. The Assyrian Mediterranean == == 12. He Who Saw the Deep == == 13. The Bitter River == == 14. The King of Kings == == 15. The Persian Version == == 16. Continental Thinking == ==..." Tag: Visual edit: Switched
13:2113:21, 10 January 2026 diff hist +51 Books →Currently Reading Tag: Visual edit
13:0913:09, 10 January 2026 diff hist +5,682 The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative →4. The Rhetoric of Narrative Tag: Visual edit