Solaris – the world of “alien(ated/ing) consciousness”

Lin Xin
A b s t r a k t
The article proposes a new interpretation of Stanisław Lem’s Solaris. Indeterminism and determinism clash both in Lem’s prose and in his understanding of physics. The latter, according to Lem, is governed by a probabilistic force, the propeller of all events, including the emergence of consciousness and perhaps even intelligence. (...)