Voltaire - louis030195

#philosophy # [[Epistemic status]] #shower-thought #to-digest # Changelog ```dataview TABLE WITHOUT ID file.mtime AS "Last Modified" FROM [[#]] SORT file.mtime DESC LIMIT 3 ``` # Related # TODO > [!TODO] TODO # Voltaire # Micromégas <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1156110.Micromegas" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img border="0" alt="Micromegas" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1181459579l/1156110.jpg" /></a><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1156110.Micromegas">Micromegas</a> by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5754446.Voltaire">Voltaire</a> My rating: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3601484629">5 of 5 stars</a> Micromegas - Another perspective It's interesting to see how people back then saw the future back then, that's what science fiction usually do. Voltaire raise the problem that we take everything granted from our perspective, other animals doesn't perform well at what human do so they are soul-less, stupid ? We don't understand what it is to be in the head of an octopus yet it has some body traits much more "intelligent" than us, leg regeneration etc. We feel very intelligent, yet we are very specialized to a specific environment. Intelligence is adaptability. An human on Mars would not last long. <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/103091881-louis-beaumont">View all my reviews</a> --- # L'ingénu <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/289382.L_Ing_nu" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img border="0" alt="L'Ingénu" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1173448734l/289382._SX98_.jpg" /></a><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/289382.L_Ing_nu">L'Ingénu</a> by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5754446.Voltaire">Voltaire</a> My rating: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3601484362">4 of 5 stars</a> God is dead (with Jesus). L'ingénu raise difficult points of modern Christianity. Christianity is like fruits, much less interesting today because of massive artificial selection, Christianity Memes had sex over the generations, changed a lot and has nothing to do with the original one. Religions are survival heuristics and modern Christianity perform poorly, a Spinozian's God could be considered though. The man "ingénu" is a man devoid of society's biased, of society's brain washing, he is sort of Tabula Rasa, he is a Child (that's positive). <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/103091881-louis-beaumont">View all my reviews</a>