THE FALSIFICATION OF MEMOIRS, PERSONALITY AND REALITY IN PHILIP K. DICK’S “WE CAN REMEMBER IT FOR YOU WHOLESALE”
Journal Title: Δόξα / Докса. Збірник наукових праць з філософії та філології - Year 2017, Vol 1, Issue
Abstract
The study cogitates over the relations between memoirs, personality and reality in Philip K. Dick’s ‘We Can Remember It for You Wholesale’, a science fiction story considered as a philosophical thought experiment advanced by the means of speculative fiction. Philip K. Dick’s ‘We Can Remember It for You Wholesale’ is an instance of Philip K. Dick’s epistemological skepticism. Philip K. Dick suspects the authenticity of reality and authenticity of the perception of reality over the potentialities of imitation and fabrication of memoirs, personality, and first-hand experience, behaviour patterns and physical evidences which must verify the enumerated ones. The only liable criterion to authenticity reality can be meta-knowledge (meta-awareness, meta- cognizance) which is a knowledge which can tell the thing is real or not. The availability of meta-knowledge (meta-awareness, meta- cognizance) is a criterion that makes it possible to distinguish between simulation and reality, virtual and real at levels of sources of memoirs and behaviour patterns which include identity, personality, individuality and selfhood. Here metaknowledge (meta-awareness, meta- cognizance) is knowledge (awareness, cognizance) of the sources of behaviour patterns; the behaviour patterns based on the experience based on the memoirs are knowledge (awareness, cognizance) how to lead in a situation in coherence of the expectations of the world within which human being exists. But meta-knowledge (metaawareness, meta- cognizance) is not absolute criterion which can be problematized and suspected.
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Konstantin RAYHERT
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