AMMDI is an open-notebook hypertext writing experiment, authored by Mike Travers aka mtraven. It's a work in progress and some parts are more polished than others. Comments welcome! More.
If all we have are illusions, then we also have the freedom to choose which illusions we count as real. If a mechanist, representationist, multiple-draft theater theory of mind is correct — as Dennett holds and I mostly do too — then voilà: not only do we get a postmodernist world-as-text, we also get full justification for religion. It's all spells all the way down. This is Dennett's fictionalism in spite of himself — naturalism plus fictionalism, a combination he'd resist but can't quite escape. The two things I've always held as incompatible, materialist cognitive science and something like weirdism, turn out to share a foundation. The tension is the point.
Magic is related to fictionalism. Technic is about capturing everything in language, magic is about the ineffable. Magic has a better relationship to reality