2001-2010

I had the opportunity to watch 2 great movies: 2001-A space Odyssey and 2010-The year we make contact.
They were very thought-provoking and challenging to the judeo-christian idea of creationism and even to Darwininian theory of evolution... I still can't quite figure it out but I know it made a profound impression in me.

Influential People

Lately I have been feeling like compiling what to me is the list of the most influential people in the world ever (well, for the time that we have had reliable recorded history for). The list is as of now in no specific order and neither do I make a moral judgement about the merits of those included. The list will only try to gauge how influential (for good or for bad) the particular person was. In no specific order here they are (it will be refined and explained later)

Jesus of Nazareth
Mohammed
Isaac Newton
Emperor Constantine of Rome
Johannes Gutenberg
Aristotle
Charlemagne
Emperor Julius Caesar of Rome
Charles Martell
Arminius
Emperor Justinian of Rome
Sidharta Gotama (Buddha)
Ferdinand of Aragon/Isabella of Castile
Henry VIII (King of England)
Joanne of Arc
Napoleon Bonaparte
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Galileo Galilei
Martin Luther
Louis XVI (King of France)
Suleiman the Magnificent
Christopher Columbus
Adolf Hitler
John F. Kennedy
Otto von Bismarck
Alexander Graham Bell
Henry Ford
Alessandro Volta
Michael Faraday
Antony van Leeuwenhoek
Robert Hooke
Albert Einstein
Karl Marx
Hernan Cortes

The Blank Slate

The third book that I read by Steven Pinker is called "The Blank slate". It's a very interesting book, right now I am looking at the major philosophical trends (Locke, Descartes, Rousseau, etc.) and it provides a very meaningful insight into the question: Why we do what we do?