COGNITIVE CYBORS OR – IS LITERACY HARMFUL?

Abstract

In the comparative context, the paper examines scientific studies focused on some of the key issues of oral ontology – the relationship of oral civilizations to the logic and cognitive foundations of literacy, the nature of memory and forgetfulness and their function in different types of culture, status and nature of „truth”. fiction – and the short story The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling (2013) by one of the most awarded science fiction writers, Ted Chiang, in which the question of what it would mean for the human species if it had a perfect memory is posed in a fictional key.