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How do we accept or reject, in our and other alternate worlds, events and features as realities? We have memories, concepts, identity, experiences and collective imaginary, building in us an inner world. We have a self-consciousness that is unique, an “intuitive” sense of what is true or not, reality and fiction, understandable or unreadable before our eyes.
In films, viewer is immersed in plot, storytelling, characters inner life and fictional world where they live. They tell us time and space in an enormous range of concepts and realities about alternative universes and their borders.
We have been considering three major Foundations families sources, in which our concepts and notions are rooted, that we use to enable our capacity of discernment: Mind/Dream, Scientific/Knowledge and Metaphysical based concepts types. We have chosen relevant scenes in the film “Interstellar” [1] related with the subjects in this study.
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The Poem is from poet Dylan Thomas, with the title “Do not go gentle into that good night”.
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Figueiredo, C.A., Farmhouse Coimbra, I. (2019). Alternative Realities in Interstellar Storytelling: Viewer Cognitive Reading and Screen Depiction. In: Rebelo, F., Soares, M. (eds) Advances in Ergonomics in Design. AHFE 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 777. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94706-8_13
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