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The educational value of fiction

If anything I love the "scifi" is not so much by its scientific content, which but unfortunately also are often poorly treated, for its section ethical and philosophical when it is not a mere amalgam of visual effects and has some chicha, of course. Stories that raise things that make you think about different aspects of life need not be unique to this genre, but it is true that scifi and fiction in general have the peculiarity of paid a lot of interesting things can easily raise , plus you can integrate several genres into one: action, drama, fantasy, horror, adventure, comedy, precisely because it is a genre (fiction) that seems designed for this purpose.

Science Science Fiction and

Normally usually scifi have little science, and not just because often what we see on the screen is not set too well with the rules of physics, delighting geeks who like to find inconsistencies in scenes of scifi, but rather from a general point of view, precisely because while the mission of science is to explain the reality, the mission is to raise possibilities of fiction. Science deals with what it is. Science fiction plays with what might be. The imaginative component here override empiricism be required to science. However, I consider scifi vehicle for disseminating scientific indirect, in that, in the best part of scientific evidence inconclusive (hypotheses and theories) and plays with them asking, with varying degrees of success or likelihood, different opportunities. But here the interested viewer will hear the name of this or that theory and then will go to the Internet or wherever to more information and see what it actually is, and this is something positive. That is, science scifi reports of curiosity in those who have, of course. But it is an attractive element that can bring knowledge to the uninitiated a little more precise.

For those interested, a couple of good places to eviscerate scientific inconsistencies are MalaCiencia and Physics at the Science Fiction .
Fiction and Philosophy

scifi or fiction in general, used correctly, are powerful tools through which we can raise a lot of things. We portray the society in which we live and we denounce it. This feature is not unique to this genre. A good drama can realistically rooted to the seat and cause us to rethink certain things, but by its very nature (fiction and alternative approach) I would say is their primary function.

For example, in the series Sliders ( Skip to inifinite ), a group of adventurers have and use technology through which they can slide between parallel Earths, in which each line of historical events has been different, generating results (companies and cultures) very different. With this pretext, scientifically hypothetical questions posed in Chapters different: In one chapter, entitled "The weaker sex," play with mischief to portray how society would be if they send the women instead of men in another war America lost Korea and the Sino-Soviet Empire swept the globe, depicting a U.S. under Soviet rule, while in another there are androids who experience human emotions through which poses the classic theme the essence of human nature. This theme is also found, with shades or from other perspectives, in other series as Caprica, Battlestar Galactica or chapters of the Stargate franchise . In another our travelers landing in a world decimated by infection because they did not discover penicillin. In another chapter pretty funny, scientists and intellectuals are the ones with fame and power and are more prized than the politicians and athletes, and people go crazy and ask for autographs when they see down the street to a scientist and all society is very intellectualized. In another suicide is institutionalized as a means of population control and is voluntary because it is internalized as a moral value and fully established and accepted with pride by the company. This theme also seen in an episode of Stargate . In other pseudoscience have won the war on science and the world is entirely mediated by magic: it's great when a character enters a phone booth to check the yellow pages and find ads that are all sorcerers, witches , healers, psychics, etc. In an invaluable chapter of Farscape using alien crew's own character as a vehicle for reporting earthling consumer society. And finally, I could talk hours of this, so there is inaugurated a new section on the blog to comment on interesting stories scifi and fiction in general.

Fiction and Psychology

Other series lovingly caring for the psychological aspect of the characters, showing more or less detail how it affects exposure to different existential and ethical problems. This is one of the highlights of reimagined Battlestar Galactica. Stargate Universe try to play too, with varying degrees of success, with these elements. In Farscape we can see the changing nature of its main characters, Crichton and Aeryn, the gradual strengthening of the character of the first and the development of greater human sensitivity in the second. We also found that in the case of Daniel Jackson and Teal'c on Stargate SG-1 or Spock in Star Trek . Nor can we forget the progressive transformation of Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars . In another vein, can also play scifi-invent chemical, biological or technological devices that directly or indirectly to the intellectual and emotional capacities of those who use, which influences their attitudes to life, ways understand the world, decision making, etc.

Finally, if you have something scifi and fiction in general is that they tend to make problems seem insignificant we are accustomed to in real life, to wipe out all differences and unite against enemies, objectives and ideals, enabling developing a more critical eye toward our environment. In almost all science fiction series real battles are fought to save entire planets, and we are here scandalized by the kiss of Sara Carbonero in the media. In many of the scifi stories must overcome all the cultural differences because only when entire planets are together there is some probability of victory, and while we are still here looking at your neighbor with a grudge that you return the hammer or casually watching how he beat up an immigrant. When I see science fiction, often just ashamed of how life on our planet and how we are human beings. I think seeing science fiction makes us want to be a little better.