Quantum Cognition and the Interpretation of Fantastic in Virginia Hamilton’s Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush
سال انتشار: 1401
نوع سند: مقاله کنفرانسی
زبان: انگلیسی
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Fantasy requires a probabilistic theory of reasoning to explore how it enables the observer to create mental images from uncertainty. This study proposes a quantum cognitive approach to fantasy used for disclosing mental models of the character in uncertainty. For the uncertain individual, there exists a multiplicity of mentally incompatible but equally valid and complete representations (mental pictures) of the world. Contextualizing Fantasy within the quantum cognitive principles, the novel Sweet whispers, Brother Rush (۱۹۸۲) by Virginia Hamilton has been taken into consideration. In this novel, the hesitation between psychological and supernatural explanations interrupts the predictive power of the real and affects the mental models or cognitive states of the young character of the novel as the observer. The process of representing fantasy through complementarity, one of the quantum cognitive principles, shows that fantasy is a mixed state with a familiar probabilistic combination of states which reflect incomplete knowledge. The Quantum principle of Superposition has been used to explain the way an introspective mental experiment is initiated by the observer but not completed. The decision made by the observer is not a deterministic process that converges to a single mental representation. Rather it can evolve forever. Through analysis, this article shows how quantum cognition can contribute to literary theory to explain the way fantasy can be cognitively illuminated. It also suggests that a representation of fantasy arises as to the result of creative interplay between the mind and the environment.
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Pegah Mashhadi
MA student in English Language and Literature, Malayer University
Sahar Jamshidian
PhD Candidate in English Language and literature, Malayer University