"When I say we live in three worlds I mean something like this:

• There is a world ‘out there’ - an objective exterior world of processes and events that can operate entirely independently of human perception and is mostly the concern of natural science.

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• There is a world ‘in here’ - a subjective interior world of consciousness, thoughts and feelings, full of meaning and mattering; the concern of philosophy, religions, and psychology.

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• There is (in most contexts) a shared world ‘between us’ and/or ‘for us’, an inter-subjective and inter-objective life of culture and ideas and institutions that forms a socially constructed reality and patterns of collective psychology; that world is of interest to social scientists and is the domain of politics broadly conceived.

These three worlds interact and are all part of the same world that is both one and many, but they are different kinds of things, known and valued and changeable in different ways possible"

JR