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

Memory, Imagination, and Consciousness in Funes the Memorious and Meursault Consciousness separates humans from moxie perceiving garbage heaps. Jorge Luis Borges, in Funes the Memorious, and Albert Camus, in The Stranger, explore the causes of consciousness. They ar philosophers who write assembly to answer the question, What makes us aware? An debile memory and imagination set our reality. Funes can be aware of new(prenominal) realities because has a perfect memory. Meursault reveals that the miss element for Funes to possess consciousness is imagination. I will define consciousness, appraise memory and imagination as essential, discuss metaphor as a manifestation of consciousness, and isolate the affect of the awareness of other consciousness.Without memory, we could non compare a past object or idea with a bear one. Memory allows us to enhance past objective observations with present sensory perceptions. Because we have an imperfect memory, that is, we cannot remember every detail, we embellish. We give a past idea or object an identity independent from the impertinent world because we perceive and imagine it differently than our initial sensory reaction. We vary our original reaction with our imagination. Thus, creative people experience life more vividly. In the process of consciousness, we first remember something imperfectly, and then qualify it with other embellished thoughts. The act of thought, then, is not consciousness. Thought is the comparison of one object to another. We are not conscious because we notice a difference between dickens things. Once, we embellish the relationship however, we create an internal reality that is an imperfect transcript of our true sensory reaction. We possess consciousness... .... Together, Camus and Borges show us that through our imperfect memories and our distorting, lying imaginations, we obtain an individual identity. Works Cited Borges, Jorge Luis. Labyrinths Funes the Memorious. New York New Directions print Co., 1964.Camus, Albert. The Stranger. New York Random contribute, 1988. Christ, Ronald. The Narrow Act Borges Art of Fiction. New York lumen Books, 1995.Hart, Thomas R. Jr. Borges Literary Criticism. Modern Critical Views Jorge Luis Borges. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York Chelsea House Publishers, 1986. 5-20.Jaynes, Julian. The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown 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.