Memory, Imagination, and Consciousness in Funes the Memorious and Meurs

Memory, Imagination, and Consciousness in Funes the Memorious and Meursault Consciousness separates humans from sense perceiving garbage heaps. Jorge Luis Borges, in Funes the Memorious, and Albert Camus, in The Stranger, explore the causes of consciousness. They are philosophers who write fiction to answer the question, What makes us aware? An irregular memory and imagination define our reality. Funes can be aware of opposite realities because has a perfect memory. Meursault reveals that the missing element for Funes to possess consciousness is imagination. I will define consciousness, assess memory and imagination as essential, debate metaphor as a manifestation of consciousness, and isolate the affect of the consciousness of other consciousness.Without memory, we could not compare a past endeavorive or idea with a present one. Memory allows us to advance past objective observations with present sensory perceptions. Because we have an imperfect memory, that is, we cannot toy with every detail, we embellish. We give a past idea or object an identity independent from the external world because we perceive and imagine it other than than our initial sensory reaction. We change our original reaction with our imagination. Thus, creative slew experience life more vividly. In the process of consciousness, we first toy with something imperfectly, and then qualify it with other embellished thoughts. The act of thought, then, is not consciousness. Thought is the affinity of one object to another. We are not conscious because we notice a difference between two things. Once, we embellish the relationship however, we create an interior(a) reality that is an imperfect copy of our true sensory reaction. We possess consciousness... .... Together, Camus and Borges depute us that through our imperfect memories and our distorting, lying imaginations, we obtain an individual identity. plant life Cited Borges, Jorge Luis. Labyrinths Funes the Memorious. New York New Directions Publishing Co., 1964.Camus, Albert. The Stranger. New York Random House, 1988. Christ, Ronald. The Narrow coiffure Borges Art of Fiction. New York Lumen Books, 1995.Hart, Thomas R. Jr. Borges Literary Criticism. ripe Critical Views Jorge Luis Borges. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York Chelsea House Publishers, 1986. 5-20.Jaynes, Julian. The Origin of Consciousness in the division of the Bicameral Mind. Boston Houghton, 1976.Mller, Max. The Science of Thought. London Longmans Green, 1887. 78-9. Sarte, Jean-Paul. An Explication of The Stranger. Camus. Ed. Germaine Bre. Englewood Cliffs Prentice, 1962.