Lapid H., Hummel T. (2013). Recording odor-evoked response potentials at the human olfactory epithelium. Chem. Senses 38, 3–17 Meier B. (1993). Speech and Thinking in Reams. New York, NY: Harvester Wheatsheaf [ Google Scholar] In The Invention of Morel, while the narrator thinks that he has been alone on the island for months, he suddenly sees people and begins to watch them from afar. While contemplating where these people came from, the narrator sees beautiful Faustine at sunset. Sitting alone against the sea, Faustine soon becomes the only thing the narrator expects to see on this strange island. After a while, he sees Morel next to Faustine, and after that, the narrator decides to follow this group of people more closely. Until they discover Morel’s invention, neither the narrator nor the reader can figure out what they are up against.

So, one can imagine a sensitive, imaginative literary artist like Adolfo Bioy Casares (born 1914) experiencing silent film in the 1920s as a boy and then sound films as a teenager and young man. One thing that makes The Invention of Morel so compelling is just how much of what the narrator and others in the novel experience is parallel to the reader's experience of a world saturated with films and TV and now, the virtual reality of the computer age.On the diary's final entry the fugitive describes how he is waiting for his soul to pass onto the recording while dying. He asks a favor of the man who will invent a machine capable of merging souls based on Morel's invention. He wants the inventor to search for them and let him enter Faustine's consciousness as an act of mercy. Dehaene S., Sergent C., Changeux J. P. (2003). A neuronal network model linking subjective reports and objective physiological data during conscious perception. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 100, 8520–8525 Dehaene S., Le Clec H. G., Cohen L., Poline J. B., Van De Moortele P. F., Le Bihan D. (1998). Inferring behavior from functional brain images. Nat. Neurosci. 1, 549–550 La invención de Morel ( Latin American Spanish: [lajmbenˈsjon de moˈɾel]; 1940) — translated as The Invention of Morel or Morel's Invention— is a novel by Argentine writer Adolfo Bioy Casares. It was Bioy Casares' breakthrough effort, for which he won the 1941 First Municipal Prize for Literature of the City of Buenos Aires. [1] He considered it the true beginning of his literary career, despite being his seventh book. The first edition cover artist was Norah Borges, sister of Bioy Casares' lifelong friend, Jorge Luis Borges.

The Invention of Marienbad: Resnais, Robbe-Grillet, Morel, and Adolfo Bioy Casares on the Left Bank". Bright Lights Film Journal. 14 August 2021. Faustine: She looks like a Gypsy, speaks French like a South American and likes to talk about Canada. She is inspired by silent film star Louise Brooks. While watching one of the tourists that watches the sun set everyday from a hill on the island, the fugitive falls in love with her. A man named Morel often talks to her though. He finally decides to approach the woman while she is alone, but she ignores her. The result is found ot be the same with all of the others on the island, and he believes that the conversations between the man and woman (that are in another language) are repeated every day. It is at this point that the fugitive starts to doubt his mental state.

We could say that Bioy Casares was ahead of his time, due to his gift of being able to mix everyday elements with science fiction. In his novels, we can see very realistic characters in a not so realistic environment. Nofzinger E. A., Buysse D. J., Miewald J. M., Meltzer C. C., Price J. C., Sembrat R. C., et al. (2002). Human regional cerebral glucose metabolism during non-rapid eye movement sleep in relation to waking. Brain 125, 1105–1115 Mitchell T. M., Shinkareva S. V., Carlson A., Chang K. M., Malave V. L., Mason R. A., et al. (2008). Predicting human brain activity associated with the meanings of nouns. Science 320, 1191–1195 Before he finds out the truth about the island, the fugitive cites Cicero's book De Natura Deorum as an explanation of the appearance of two suns in the sky. Therefore, the relatively new science of subjective consciousness is in urgent need of novel methods for gathering first-person data and, in parallel, of ways to integrate this data with their neurophysiological correlates. Here, we will see that such an integrative model of consciousness may find its inspiration from an unlikely source: literature. Morel's Invention as Inspiration for an Integrative Description of Consciousness