Although only a scattering of evidence is currently available to support it, I would like to suggest that Langer’s thesis is nevertheless worthy of serious consideration. The scientific study of consciousness is still in its infancy, and, as Langer observed, we must be careful not to jeopardize the growth of knowledge by “denying to our researches the free play which belongs to brain children as well as to animal and human infants” (1967, 53). If the products of artistic creation might indeed offer resources for the investigation of consciousness that we may have overlooked, we should at least be willing to open the question for discussion. Perhaps this will encourage the kind of creative philosophical and empirical work that would be needed to explore the question further.