Assignment:
The readings for this week emphasize the fiction of ideas. What ideas or mind experiments were explored in the works you read for this week? What were some of the implications or consequences of those ideas for those of us living today?
One of the best examples of a mind experiment in this book is the paradox of this book. In chapter 5, two character talk about a work of fiction in their world, that is in fact our history. They mention that FDR was shot and killed in Miami, leading up to a different man becoming president who can do nothing about German taking over Europe in World War 2. This is our world. So we are caught reading a book about a fiction world where they read a book about a fiction world that is actually our world. Once you get done with your headache, you realize how cool it is that Dick did this too us. Yes the whole premise of the book makes you think about how horrible life would be for the average American if Germany had one, but this was the first moment that I stopped and actually thought about what that would actually mean. Up until this point it had been fiction to me, but for some reason, making my world fiction put things into a perspective I could really understand.
Amanda
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