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Jiang uses Dante, Virgil, and Shakespeare to expose a limit in that neuroscience model: literary characters can appear as fully distinct consciousnesses rather than simple projections of the author's own experience.
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Literary characters
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"If everything is stored in your brain and you can only know what you experience, then how... How does Dante... Conte, no Virgil. Does..."
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"I understand. Okay. But all you're telling me is like Virgil is a projection of Dante, right? Virgil exists within Dante's larger imagination. But..."
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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