Fiction as Philosophy: When Narrative Becomes an Experiment in Consciousness
Symmetry in Silence, Book 1, written by Dalia Dubois, opens the Echoes of Spiraling Consciousness series. Memory is depicted here not as a straight line but as a spiral, returning across time with new meanings. The book examines silence, buried secrets, and the indirect influence of trauma and memory on identity.
The series will continue for five more volumes, each
further delving into memory, identity, and transformation:
Book Two: Dimensions
of Truths
Book Three: Memory
Resurrection
Book Four: Mirror
of Memory & Fragmented Identities
Book Five: The
Palindrome Project Reconstruction – Fractured Lines
Book Six: Quantum
Reflections – A Novel of Consciousness, Justice and Transcendence
Her stories look inward, with memory, trauma, and
identity as the landscapes she explores.
Storytelling as a thought experiment
Traditional philosophy is generally articulated in
abstract arguments and logical form. Dubois, on the other hand, embeds
philosophical questions within her narratives. She makes characters who wrestle
with broken identities, looping timelines, and incomplete memories, and turns
them into living questions rather than remote concepts.
Consciousness As A New Frontier
In her view, consciousness is overlaid, changes, and can
exist in multiple realities at the same time.
Instead of treating awareness as a fixed point, she
presents it as a spectrum of possibilities. Just as physics deepens our
understanding of matter, Dubois’s fiction expands our understanding of the mind.
Far
Beyond Flight
Fiction here becomes an experimental invitation to
test what we believe in memory, resilience, and the meaning of the self. What
makes Dubois’work so striking is its refusal to see fiction as merely
entertainment. Her stories function as mirrors, which allow readers to stop,
reflect on fragmented characters and shards of their own lives in them. It's a
subtle effect, but a strong one. Readers don’t simply consume a story; they
engage in a conversation with it. They challenge their assumptions and consider
that consciousness might be more strange, terrifying, and vast than they ever
imagined.
Fiction
as a Philosophy
It shows that the narrative can act as a philosophy
and that speculative storytelling with a deep examination of identity and
transformation weaves.
In this way, she calls our attention to the fact that
fiction is not simply a matter of worlds outside of our own-it is a matter of
going back to the inner worlds we inhabit and finding out what it is to be
human.
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