They help to author and direct (in their capacity as autonomous agents) the fictional content they help to generate (in their capacity as props) and go on to consume (in their capacity as obedient imaginers).
This in turn, it is further argued, explains the importance of "fictional components" of scientific practice: "the capacity of literary fictions for generating nonfictional knowledge owes to their capacity for doing what philosophy and science do generating thought experiments".
Another fictional element is Marilena's capacity of provoking short circuits, in moments in which she is very emotionally active (e.g., when Andrei touches her in the bar's restroom, or when the whole neighborhood is cut from electricity when she cries near the high voltage electrical box).
He makes the point that the capacity to believe in fictional constructs is a defining element of what makes us human, because without it we cannot co-operate with people we do not know: "At the heart of our mass co-operation networks, you will always find fictional stories that exist only in people's collective imagination..
After the war, Campbell often cited the incident to demonstrate the genre's prophetic nature — its capacity to project a convincing fictional future from known scientific facts.
Recent studies in cognitive science reveal similar concerns about the concept 'free will.' They suggest free will is sometimes taken to require an "executive self"—a fictional entity operating above and beyond the mental states and capacities human agents possess (Knobe and Nichols 2010).
Alongside Mark Haddon's much more widely praised The Pier Falls Random Housee £12.99), they prove the capacity of a short story to immerse the reader fully in a fictional world.
But they are thoughtless in the sense that they abandon their independence, their capacity to think for themselves, and instead commit themselves absolutely to the fictional truth of the movement.
As a game meant to explore the fictional universes of various Disney films, over one hundred Disney characters are featured in various capacities.
