Society of Mind
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metaphors (see below). | metaphors (see below). | ||
| - | The social network as a whole is of fundamental | + | The social network as a whole is of fundamental importance: |
| - | importance: '''the social network of the mind determines | + | '''the social network of the mind determines the kind of subjective experience.''' |
| - | the kind of subjective experience.''' | + | Everyone has a uniqe “society of mind”, and a unique social network. |
| - | Everyone has a uniqe “society of mind”, and a unique | + | Each of us is adapted to a slightly different world (or different “slice” |
| - | social network. Each of us is adapted to a slightly different | + | of the same world). Already William James said |
| - | world (or different “slice” of the same world). | + | |
| - | Already William James | + | |
: The peculiarity of our experiences, that they not only are, but are known, which their ’conscious’ quality is invoked to explain, is better explained by their relations – these relations themselves being experiences – to one another. | : The peculiarity of our experiences, that they not only are, but are known, which their ’conscious’ quality is invoked to explain, is better explained by their relations – these relations themselves being experiences – to one another. | ||
