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This weekend also offers the Science for Nanos Film Festival: "Imagine Consciousness," at noon and 3 p.m., a series of shorts and features presented by Imagine Science Films.
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Based on one of Michael Crichton's better pieces of writing – his script for the 1973 film Westworld – it imagines consciousness as virus, glitch as evolution.
But what if our ideas are, rather, as Virginia Woolf imagined consciousness: a constant flicker of different and self-cancelling perceptions, entertained for a moment and then exchanged for other ones?
Imagine this consciousness.
But only the latter requires me to imagine a consciousness independent of my own, and equally real.
I am aware, I think, of the possible objections – moral, aesthetic, political even – to trying to imagine the consciousness of a hostage held by Islamic State terrorists in the last few seconds before being beheaded.
I could no more imagine my consciousness having an opinion about what thoughts I put into it than I can imagine a cup of hot water hoping against hope that nobody drops any Lapsang Souchong tea bags into it.
Even more inscrutable are the Bowlesian narratives that originate within the (imagined) Muslim consciousness.
For almost twenty years, I have tried to understand how McCullers embodied what Richard Wright called "an attitude towards life" that "cannot be accounted for stylistically or politically" — one that enabled her to imagine and create consciousness that was not her own, and also one that was not widely available in other novels or movies.
Imagine that your consciousness is like a tea cup directly connected to a natural spring -- a fountainhead of warm, crystal clear water that continually refills the cup from the bottom up.
Imagine the self-consciousness of puberty.
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