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15 Lest this point be dismissed as encompassing a stroke of mental image-metaphors that,
if any, exert only minor influences on a self' s sustenance, I point to Dennett's assertion that
"metaphors are not 'just' metaphors; metaphors are the tools of thought. No one can think about
consciousness without them, so it is important to equip yourself with the best set of tools
available." Dennett, Consciousness Explained, 455. Further, a "tool of thought" is thought, and
thought, of course, is consciousness.
16 Bohm tells us that many, many aspects of the physical environments we perceive are
themselves simply thoughts: "Thus, as has already been pointed out, thought is a material
process whose content is the total response of memory, including feelings, muscular reactions
and even physical sensations that merge with and flow out of the whole response. Indeed, all
man-made features of our general environment are, in this sense, extensions of the process of
thought, for their shapes, forms, and general orders of movement originate basically in thought,
and are incorporated within this environment, in the activity of human work, which is guided by
such thought." Bohm, Wholeness, 74.
17 Doug Lain, "The '84 Regress," Last Week's Apocalypse (San Francisco: Night Shade
Books, 2006).
18 Ed Park, "Well-Moistened with Cheap Wine, The Sailor and the Wayfarer Sing of
Their Absent Sweethearts," Trampoline. An Anthology, ed. Kelly Link (Northampton,
Massachusetts: Small Beer Press, 2003)
19 China Miville, "Familiar," Conjunctions 39, ed., Bradford Morrow. Guest ed., Peter
Straub (New York: Bard College, 2002).
20 Todorov, The Fantastic, 120.59
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