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Michael Johnson has a new post up, "Model Agnoticism: Get Smarter and Happier (Maybe?)"
"Wilson said in an interview 13 years before his death that not believing anything and not disbelieving anything is 'one of the most important ideas in my books.' This Model Agnosticism runs like a source code through all of Wilson’s 40-odd books, both fiction and non-fiction. He even wondered about this separation of 'fiction' and non- as reified categories. If we just constantly invent or discover reality, how is this not an aspect of fiction? Why are the holy books shelved in the non-fiction section of the library? Are novels true statements about someone’s world? What is the relation between facts and 'reality'?"
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