counterpoint is what we might call Dumbledore’s dictum, spoken by Hogwarts headmaster Albus Dumbledore toward the end of the Harry Potter series: “Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” Your thoughts and experience happen inside your head and depend on your mind, but they’re real all the same. Social entities like money also depend on people’s minds. If no one regarded dollar bills as valuable, they wouldn’t be money—but money is real all the same.
