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                                             January 15, 2012


In the penultimate chapter about Virgina              JONAHS_COOKIE
Wolfe, we have Lehrer discoursing
learnedly about Wolfe's explorations of
human consciousness, and her perception
that the self emerges out of a
multiplicity of effervescent,
contradictory streams of consciousness.

  Lerher then asserts that this is
  yet another place where modern
  science has confirmed an artist's
  ideas, but his evidence seems
  rather sketchy on this point:

  He makes a very strained interpretation
  of the phenomena of "blindsightedness",
  a form of blindness where the optical       How do you get
  machinery is all working correctly but      from there to
  the brain refuses to consciously            a Virigina Wolfe's
  recognize the visual input.                 stream of consciousness?

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