When I wrote the editorial of this issue, almost twenty years ago, I was still looking at the World through the eyes of a child. Meanwhile, I realized how different human incentives are. There are many reasons for which I do not believe humanity can evolve, at least not without a drastic change. No one likes to wake up and suddenly realize that there is something beyond what maintains human activities within immutable patterns. Not being part of something is a very foreign feeling, a feeling of fundamental loneliness. Such an idea inspires enough fear by itself to prevent any one to challenge reality. Without the snake in the tree of knowledge of the good and the evil, humans would have never been tempted to seek knowledge. Moreover, it would have been enough to kick out the snake from the Garden of Eden and simply forgive Adam and Eve for their temptation ; there was absolutely no risk for God to lose the secret of Life. Even naked, they would have continued to play around without further challenging their environment.
We are all slaves from birth, at least in our mind. It is up to us to decide how much freedom we are willing to seek, knowing that we are not meant to exist as free beings. We enjoy freedom only when it is constrained, and only then, freedom has a meaning for us. In other words, freedom does not come without a certain form of addiction. But somehow, by planting all these trees without any surveillance, God showed his inclination to play with Adam and Eve more than with any other form of life for which he simply ordered to reproduce. So maybe God was right. It would not have been enough to banish the snake from the Garden of Eden while keeping the progenitor of the human race inside. At some point, some of us would have been tempted to taste the secret of Life with or without the help of a
snake.
Ákos Dobay
Table of contents
Yann Becker,
Micromégas et le livre du savoir,
page 5.
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Nicolas Monod,
Raison intuitive,
page 21.
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Ákos Dobay,
Dieu et la matière,
page 25.
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Thierry Moreno,
L’imaginaire dans la structure de la réalité,
page 31.
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Ákos Dobay,
La notion d’exister dans l’existentialisme généralisé :
Responsabilité et existence,
page 43.
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Nicolas Monod,
Une formalisation de l’autoréférence,
page 51.
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John W. Grave,
L’asile du docteur Softus,
page 59.
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Illustrations
Andréas Dobay
pages 5, 26, 43.
Cover
Marina Vogel
