Philip K. Dick and Philosophy by Wittkower D. E

Author:Wittkower, D. E. [Wittkower, D. E.]
Language: ru
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780812697391
Publisher: Perseus Books Group
Published: 2011-10-17T04:00:00+00:00

The Nature and Origin of the “Mind”

Well, . . .for Fat it may be for the worse. Fat’s blob—his concept of what we are all part of—comes with serious emotional baggage, for his version of ‘the blob’, what he calls the “Mind,” created the “Brain,” an independent entity existing within the Mind in order to keep the memory of its deceased sister alive. Or, as the thirty-second entry of the Tractatus informs us, “All the information processed by the Brain—experienced by us as the arranging and rearranging of physical objects—is an attempt at this preservation of her; stones and rocks and sticks and amoebae are traces of her.” Reality as we know it is no more than the Mind’s fond memories of a lost sibling.

Like anyone else, the Mind grieves over the death of its sister. Unlike most cases of grief, this has driven the Mind mad, which is bad for us:

33. This loneliness, this anguish of the bereaved Mind, is felt by every constituent of the universe. All its constituents are alive.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.