5 Feb 2009, 6:53pm
The outside world reading:
by Harry Connolly

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“What it suggests to us is that, when they’re reading the story they’re building simulations in their heads of events that are described by the story. And so there’s an important sense that, as they build that simulation, that it’s significantly like being there.”

“… Language itself is a form of virtual reality.”

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