(Plovdiv University Press, 2025-05-16) Kolev, Milen; Колев, Милен
The article examines the Frankenstein theme as an issue of categorizing the monster from Mary Shelley's novel. It emphasizes that the attempts to definitively classify the monster as either a type of artificial intelligence or an automaton are not only unsuccessful but fundamentally flawed, as something always remains beyond the imposed boundaries. This leads to the conclusion that the problem lies not in the creature itself but in the attempt to categorize it. The article raises the question of the monster’s true nature and introduces the idea of Frankenstein – Shelley’s cat, comparing the creature to Schrödinger’s experiment.