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phil
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Welcome @dylanoa4! Dylan is a writer and senior editor at Infinite Books, an author-first publishing house launching in 2025. He has agreed to do an AMA for the /books channel. Reply with your questions (please make sure to tag him so he can easily find them)
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John Hoang
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@dylanoa4 What is something that you've recently changed your mind about, and what caused that change?
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Dylan O'Sullivan
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That's a good question. I suppose one thing would be that I always conflated language and thought, but I've come to believe that imagery plays an even deeper role. Cormac McCarthy writes about this in a great essay called "The Kekulé Problem." Language is only a very recent addition to the mind, in terms of our long evolution. A great part of the mind speaks only in images, that's why imagery is so integral to literature, and why dreams have such a profound effect on us. So many great breakthroughs in art and science have come via dreams.
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John Hoang
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Carl Jung mentions this too. He thinks there are primordial images which grow to form archetypes or what I consider to be memeplexes.
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Dylan O'Sullivan
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Absolutely. There's a renowned scientist called Jaak Panksepp who approaches the idea of archetypes from a neurobiological perspective, a fascinating book called The Archaeology of Mind
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John Hoang
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Oh wow. I have to add that to my reading list.
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