ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book suggests the reading of 'Work in Progress' as a simulation of the human mind at work, an evocation not so much of a dream or of 'the unconscious' but of human consciousness, including its default mode network. From a cognitive perspective, the relationship between 'Work in Progress' and Finnegans Wake can be regarded as paradigmatic of the workings of the human mind in terms of Daniel Dennett's 'multiple drafts model' and what Mark Rowlands calls '4e cognition'. The book discusses the James Joyce's case; however, it seems more difficult to present the pre-book publications of 'Work in Progress' or Finnegans Wake as 'exuviae'. There is an interesting tension between the avant-garde nature of Joyce's 'work in progress' and the way parts of it were presented to the public.
