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It is a pleasure to respond to these essays on the collective story-making of cul- ture: the experience of reality that human beings create together because they are motivated from birth to experiment with the exchange of fantasies and to find meaning in them. Human consciousness has the special gift of imaginative travel through times and places, and it grows through communication of intentions and interests. Language and the practical tools of our society enrich the products of the game, but its causes are in the movements and preferences of embodied minds, minds that have evolved to act in sympathy and to share history and in- vention, whatever may turn out to be the topic or task. Our common knowledge and perception of ourselves as knowers of meaningful facts depends upon, and grows from, our innate capacity for intersubjectivity.
