Raoul's Sunday Response to Notes From the Underground

Today I read the first five chapters of part two. I have come to find that part two of Notes From the Underground flows much faster than part one, mostly because it is a story instead of a ramble. However, even though part two flows faster I actually prefer part one. I found that part one was filled with radical new ideas, in which Dostoyevsky went against common logic and reason to produce a new thought and idea. I have found that part two is a strange story from which only a few ideas can be derived. Never the less, part two is still interesting, in that the story is different. I would even describe it as being similar to an Italo Calvino story.

Today I was contemplating one of the arguments Dostoyevsky brought up in part one. He contemplated a situation in which science predicted everything, where nothing was a surprise, and everything followed the laws. Conveniently, I similar argument has been brewing in the world of theoretical physics. Physicists; however, state the situation in a more understandable way. They ask the question, "If every last atom was recorded and analyzed, could a computer simulation predict the future?" To me it was interesting to see that Dostoyevsky was contemplating this long before modern theoretical physicists.