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{{quote|There are so many different worlds <br> | {{quote|There are so many different worlds <br> | ||
So many different suns <br> | |||
We have just one world <br> | |||
But we live in different ones <br> | |||
:— Dire Straits, ''Brothers in Arms''.}} | |||
I doubt Mark Knopfler was talking about literary theory. The modern world seems to be polarising. {{author|Daniel Dennett}}’s [[reductionist]] disposition is of a piece with that. But the conscious world each of us inhabits is an ambiguous, ambivalent, imaginarium of a place. Alternative accounts of it and the things in it are just additional tools in the box: we are free to use them, or not, as we wish. If we keep them as alternatives we will not have to philosophise with a hammer when the occasion calls for a soft cotton cloth. | I doubt Mark Knopfler was talking about literary theory. The modern world seems to be polarising. {{author|Daniel Dennett}}’s [[reductionist]] disposition is of a piece with that. But the conscious world each of us inhabits is an ambiguous, ambivalent, imaginarium of a place. Alternative accounts of it and the things in it are just additional tools in the box: we are free to use them, or not, as we wish. If we keep them as alternatives we will not have to philosophise with a hammer when the occasion calls for a soft cotton cloth. | ||