Exploring the Brain, Looking for Thoughts: On Asimov's Second Fantastic Voyage
2011; Brill; Volume: 26; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1163/182539111x569810
ISSN1825-3911
Autores Tópico(s)Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism
ResumoAbstract The aim of this paper is to investigate various concerns which appear in Isaac Asimov's Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain. I will disregard his first voyage inside a human body in Fantastic Voyage I, which the author disavows as not being his own work. In contrast, the second voyage is intricate, suggesting problems drawn from a variety of sources. In a nutshell, Asimov's explorers enter the body of a comatose man in order to read his thoughts. The story can be related both to philosophical thought-experiments, such as those of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and of Herbert Feigl, as well as to personal anxieties peculiar to Asimov.
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