Under the title “The Exegesis” we are introduced to the most personal Philip K. Dick, a manic and obsessive character who transformed paranoia into literature of anticipation.
Gifted with extreme sensitivity and a certain penchant for the invisible side, Dick linked the world of subatomic particles with various forms of mystical experience. For this reason, his everyday statement is a delirium in which religions intersect with quantum physics and Eastern philosophy intersects with gravity and the curved space of the I Ching. If anyone ever came close to a theory of everything, it wasn't a scientist but a science fiction writer named Philip K. Dick.
It is no joke. For in all the gibberish of his diaries, what stands out is the clarity with which Dick grapples with questions of quantum physics and the noise of the world that produces scientific laws. The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick has just been published by Minotauro, taking into account the original edition by Pamela Jackson and Jonathan Lethem. The translation into Spanish is by Juan Pascual Martínez Fernández and its pages are a powerful example of how to question the nature of reality perceived from a transversal path illuminated by phosphenes.
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In one of his entries appears the letter he wrote to the literary critic Peter Fitting, in which Philip K. Dick explains that “the universe is moving backwards.” To support this statement, he cites the article published by the Hungarian scientist Arthur Koestler in Harper's magazine in July 1974 entitled “Order in Disorder”, a study in which Koestler writes about the process that the universe undergoes from chaos . Based on this premise, Dick uses the concept of tachyons, hypothetical subatomic particles that travel faster than the speed of light, to develop theories about their motion.
According to Dick, tachyons move in the opposite direction, bringing us from the future a range of information that only people with extreme sensitivity can grasp. As he wrote in his diaries, Dick was one of these people and, like his cat and the other animals, was able to capture the information from the tachyons before they dissipated. In fact, he used this information to argue his fables.
His distance from reality led him to believe that tachyons exist and that they interact with ordinary matter without violating the principle of causality. All in all, it's strange to see how Dick fed on scientific theories and interpreted them in his own way to get closer to connecting the fundamental physical interactions in a theory of everything; a combination of speculations that helped him write works of fiction in which he foresaw the dehumanization of our species due to technology.
To put it this way: Philip K. Dick's diaries are an example of an impure mixture of the three pure forms of knowledge: science, art, and revelation.
The stone axe It is a section in which Montero GlezWith a penchant for prose, he makes his special attack on scientific reality to show that science and art are complementary forms of knowledge.
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