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• 1 media/question-mark-1495858_1920.jpg 2017-11-17T22:53:37-08:00 What might be happening? 10 plain 2017-11-20T05:15:48-08:00 There is a great dissonance of what is truly occurring with Franco Magnani, with his epileptic visions of Pontito.Frank Jackson, an Australian philosopher and former professor at Princeton University, describes identity as part of internalism, a view of psychological ideas within a person’s self. He describes the idea of type-type identity, a justification that identity is formed on the mind's perception of its surroundings (2014, 162). Jackson goes on to state, “...their being such and such a mental state depends in part on how things are around the subjects in ways that mean that internally identical subjects can be in different mental states.” (2014,162) This follows a correlation back to the case of Franco Magnani in, The Anthropologist on Mars. Franco’s environment may be somehow contributing to his episodal detailed remembrances of Pontito. With Franco trying to understand his own identity, the faulty connection of what his current surroundings- San Fransisco with a lack of Italian culture- behold doesn’t make up for his needs for his identity and is therefore made up by his very detailed memory of Pontito and its architecture to counter the void of not being “home” anymore.
  
  By: Ibrahim Bazyan