RE: The Last Memory - Finish the Story contest 37
My studies of philosophy are too rusty to respond to this examination worthily, but I think that this little story of fiction, like many others, in the end betray a bit of my thinking and the key to the interpretation of the world I use.
Even if only wanting to write an end for the story of which I am not the author, and therefore I do not have the absolute freedom but I have to follow a plot already traced, and even if only wanting to be effective in 500 words, probably when I deal with issues like the search for meaning for life, I tend to show a bit of my approach, which is relativistic, materialistic and slightly nihilistic.
In fiction, Conscience of Yoh created Ethan as Ark for the memories of all sentient beings on Earth, and infused him with the impulse to search for him once the harvest was complete. For Conscience of Yoh this is the way to feed and grow, and Ethan does not understand that he is a mere instrument for his creator.
Ethan, being endowed with at least human intelligence, if not superior, has got a symbolic thought which, like in human beings, has caused the birth of questions of meaning and the conception of the divine. But, as for humans, the creation of this "symbolic father" can not save him from death.
As to quote Lacan in “Television: A challenge to the Psychoanalytic tradition”: “Thought is in disharmony with the Soul.”
On a different note, as I have said with paintings, writings to are a reflection of, directly, the author and, indirectly, society. The yearning for higher being, or a higher stage of existence, did and still haunts us that do consider and understand what uppercase F Fairh is. Even so, I rather stuck with Psychoanalysis and Søren Kierkegaard here in my comment due to the fact that Theology was the big theme while Scifi was merely a background (and modifier) of the theme. Even so, the reply back was fruiful and I can sense yer struggle which only is, dialectically, creating a stronger and better writer.