Why this Blog

When asked why I decided to start publishing this blog, I could answer directly and with extreme simplicity, saying: "To talk about science fiction"

and that would be all that would need to be said on the matter.

However, there is still one more thing to say about science fiction.

I am becoming increasingly convinced that there is not just one way to narrate and explain the topics that make up the vast culture of science fiction.

When people talk or talk about science fiction, for the simple reason that the fantasy component is a fundamental element of this culture, capable of giving character to the explained topic, it means that the explanation (or narration) itself acquires meanings that they have value for the unconscious and emotional part of our consciousness.

The unconscious is a vast dimension of our consciousness where many topics of our life are stored, some of which involve a lot of our thoughts, both emotional and rational.

This is how, in my opinion, science fiction narration acquires different connotations, depending on whether this or that meaning is attributed to the narrated topic.

This is how in the vast culture of science fiction we come to have a certain number of subgenres, each of which is characterized by its specific way of choosing the nature of the symbols and facts used to carry out the narrative.

This is how we have, therefore:

Biological science fiction

Dreamlike and psychoanalytic science fiction

Mythological science fiction

Moral and ethical science fiction

Military science fiction

Optimistic utopian science fiction

Pessimistic dystopian science fiction

Emotional horror science fiction

Evolutionary science fiction

Mathematical and physics science fiction

and other subgenres that I don't think about now.

Furthermore, science fiction culture is an aggregate of facts, artistic productions and speculative theories which, by virtue of the volume they have acquired for over a century, constitute an essential part of our modern industrialized civilization.

These topics of a heterogeneous nature, which make up the culture of science fiction, can be collected in the following list:

1. Novels

2. Films and TV series

3. Science fiction theories

4. Videos of unexplained events showing sightings of UFOs or strange creatures

5. Testimonies of people abducted by aliens

6. Science fiction interpretations of inexplicable archaeological evidence

7. False science fiction evidence

Considering these two lists that I have published on this page, I immediately realize that science fiction culture largely depends on the way in which it is told, explained and shown.

This reminds me of what Parmenides said about discourses based on opinion and those based on logic and rationality.

The Greek philosopher distinguished between discourses based on 'Doxa', based on opinion and trust in sensitive data, and discourses based on 'Atheleia', based on the search for truth, regardless of what our senses can see or hear, and regardless of what most people say.

In the history of philosophy, the study of rational thought has been a frequently sought goal by philosophers.

In fact, thanks to rational thinking it is possible to distinguish between deceptive facts and those that deserve to be believed true.

After Parmenides, Plato was also interested in defining how to use thought in a rational way, up to Aristotle, who of all people was the one who defined in the most complete and methodical way the rational procedures to which to entrust thought in order to arrive at understand the truth of things and life.

Aristotle explains very well the importance of two manner of lead our thinkings that he calles:

Inductive Thinking

Deductive Thinking

and for many centuries philosophers and theorists of science and morality did nothing but return to using the thinking techniques defined by the famous philosopher, creator of the Syllogisms.

Even the English philosopher Francis Bacon, in his very important study on the definition of pragmatic thinking, returned to using Aristotle's way of rational thinking, and although the English philosopher decided to make some changes to it, the overall functioning of the way of using inductive and deductive Aristotle's thinking remained almost the same.

So here we come to explain the purpose of this blog.

Most people are interested in understanding which fantasy topics deserve to be considered possible in reality and which, instead, are just silly fantasies that aren't even worth hearing.

So, in this case, the problem is distinguishing truth from falsehood.

Instead, in my opinion, it is more important to be able to recognize the nature of different science fiction discourses, since they are all part of this type of culture and, therefore, they are all important.

Therefore it is not so much necessary to recognize truth from falsehood, but rather to recognize the identity, or rather the ontological nature of these different discourses, in order to be able to take them into consideration with the appropriate awareness, so as not to use them improperly in discourses in which they have no the relevance of being used, but only where these discourses make sense and acquire cultural value of a science fiction type.

To succeed in this study of recognition of the nature of the different science fiction discourses, I will use science as a criterion of comparison, as this is the only rational thought that provides principles and laws that allow us to define the truly possible from the truly impossible, the plausible from the unlikely.

It will be very interesting to use the principles of science and, using the deductive method, reason about what could really happen in the cases that science fiction tells.

It will be equally interesting to examine the symbols and meanings present in the topics and facts that science fiction tells and, using the inductive method, go back to the laws and principles that inspired them in the imagination of those who told them in their novels, or of those who they presented them as facts that actually happened, without thinking too much about whether they were stating things that were objectively impossible.

This is what scientific thinking consists of.

So, among the many types of science fiction reasoning there is only one that faithfully respects the principles of scientific thought and pushes the imagination in a rational way to investigate those themes and topics that are typical of science fiction.

In this way, using the rational thinking of science for science fiction themes, it is possible to hypothesize what would really happen if certain discoveries were made or if certain events occurred.

This is, therefore, 'science fiction as we like it', because it is the unit of measurement that allows us to recognize all other types of science fiction discourses and narratives.

It is science fiction as we like it because it is the one that proves most useful for orienting ourselves among all the other types of science fiction and choosing, depending on our needs and motivations of the moment, which type of science fiction we want to travel with. fantasy, without the fear of thinking unreal things, since in that case we are perfectly aware of their unreality.