@inbook{10.1525/j.ctt1pn55c.10, ISBN = {9780520213203}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pn55c.10}, abstract = {Just as humanists like John Updike have their thread that “runs through all things,” as I say in Chapter 1, so, too, is the interpreter omnipresent in our lives. It toils away at duties from perception to memory. In general the interpreter seeks to understand the world. In doing so it creates the illusion that we are in control of all our actions and reasoning. We become the center of a sphere of action so large it has no walls.The manifest presence of the interpreter, rearing its magnificent head above the sea of species around us, raises the question}, bookauthor = {Michael S. Gazzaniga}, booktitle = {The Mind's Past}, edition = {1}, pages = {151--176}, publisher = {University of California Press}, title = {THE VALUE OF INTERPRETING THE PAST}, year = {1998} }