>>It is no wonder that films have been compared to dreams--it
>>is only rarely that I become aware 'this is only a dream' while dreaming.
>>(sorry about the anecdote)
anecdote forgiven . . . actually this is
a VERY interesting suggestion, for note
how in dreams, as in movies, we are typically
helpless to do anything but watch and feel
sensation . . . no one is doubting that
"fictional" [hypothetical/imagined/imaginary]
experience can and does cause sensation, only
that we THINK it is real . . . perhaps the
point is that in theaters as in sleep we don't
"think" at all -- i'd buy that . . . it just
reserves the word "think" for the mental
process that indeed does know the dif. between
lumiere's locomotive and amtrak's . . . would
that satisfy all sides in the dispute??
mike
