![]() ![]() ![]() One of the ways that “Hard-boiled Wonderland & the End of the World” differs, is the fact that the “illusory” world is the narrators own subconsciousness and the world he eventually ends up living in exclusively, which ties up with the proposition of idealism that “matter derives from mind”. Haruki Murakami’s novel “Hard-boiled Wonderland & the End of the World” presents an intriguing view on the nature of consciousness.Īlthough the book is inconclusive and rather open to interpretation, it seems to reflect an understanding of mind and consciousness that both illustrates the paradigm of idealism and materialism, as it is explained in the lecture.Īs Alexander Wilson says: “Living in a world of illusion echoes western philosophies mistrust of the senses”, and the fact that the story is composed of two parallel narratives or realities, where one of them is presented as the real world (even though the other world seems just as real) makes it similar to “The Matrix” in many aspects. I couldn’t see it, and after a while, you start to think the body is nothing but a hypothetical construct.” ![]() “The further we traveled in the darkness, the more I began to feel estranged from my body. ![]()
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