Reading D'Alembert's Dream | Alexandria
Read D'Alembert's Dream by Denis Diderot. Imagining consciousness as an emergent property, Diderot's radical materialist vision shatters mind-body dualism, suggesting even matter itself might think. His evolutionary insights predate Darwin by a century, while his dream dialogue format revolutionized philosophical discourse. A prescient glimpse of modern neuroscience from the Enlightenment's edge.