Excerpt from the transcript of a class I gave on deep narrative theory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We\u2019re going to cover a lot of different ways of looking at the same thing.\u00a0 And each one of the ways that we cover will be complete from that particular perspective.\u00a0 But, it doesn\u2019t really describe how the whole mechanism works, because all of the perspectives we\u2019ll talk about, and many of them we won\u2019t, are part of the process, because they are all valid ways of looking at it.\u00a0 You can\u2019t really see the process of justification for what it is, because it\u2019s the way the mind works.\u00a0 And you can\u2019t use the way the mind works to look at the way the mind works.\u00a0 It really can\u2019t be done.\u00a0 All you can do is see after-images left by where the mind has worked.\u00a0 Or look at things that are effected by the mind as it\u2019s working.\u00a0 And say, we can get an idea of what the mind is doing by it\u2019s gravitational pull on the orbits of other things around it.\u00a0 So we\u2019ll be looking at how the mind affects a number of different things, and from that try to get a feel for what\u2019s actually going on in the mind, as it tries to solve problems or creates justifications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n