Science Fiction (ctd.)

The pairing of The Invention of Morel with the episode of “Lost” helped to emphasize the theme of science fiction this week. There were a number of parallels between the “Lost” episode and Adolfo Bioy Casares’s novel. The episode, especially, played with this idea of science and reality. Generally, we use science to define our reality. We take these truths that science establishes through evidence and decide what is “real”. However, when we think further into these ideas, how do we know that what we believe is true is in fact true. In theory, we can’t really prove anything. Science fiction twists our mind into thinking just that. It takes our typically “blind faith” in science and uses it against us, making us question what we normally don’t think twice about.