This book is a combination of the subject matter and outlooks of<br >various disciplines. It seeks to explain a technical subject (digital<br >computers and computer programming) in a historical light, call-<br >ing upon the history of philosophical as well as technological<br >ideas and going as far back as the Greeks. This seems an odd<br >thing to do. It seems odd precisely because of that widely recog-<br >nized and still dangerous split in our intellectual life--the gulf<br >between the sciences and the humanities. Scientists, including<br >applied scientists and engineers, know very little history or phi-<br >losophy. Those in the humanities generally learn as little science<br >as they ~ua get away with. Many attempts have been made to<br >bridge the gap, and this book can be read as one of them. I have<br >chosen to write about computers because these machines should<br >and, I think, will provide the sturdiest bridge between the world<br >of science and the traditional worlds of philosophy, history, and<br >art. The computer is a medium of communication as well as a<br >scientific tool, and it can be used by humanists as well as scien-<br >tists. It brings concepts of physics, mathematics, and logic into<br >the humanist s world as no previous machine has done. Yet it can<br >also serve to carry artistic and philosophical thinking into the sci-<br >entific community. I am trying, in other words, to recognize and<br >foster a process of cross-fertilization that has already begun.<br > In order to address scientists, engineers, and humanists, I must<br >cover ground that is familiar to each group. My explanation of the<br >computer is far too general to please the computer specialist, but<br >I need to give the nonspecialist some idea of how the machine<br >works in order to explain its impact on our culture. Readers with<br >a background in classical and European philosophy and literature<br >will probably quarrel with my many generalizations about "the<br >Greek" or "the Western European" mind. Again I have to be<br >general, for I need to introduce a wide range of topics in order to<br >map out the areas of history and philosophy to which the com-<br >puter is relevant. The reader may come to his own conclusions<br >about the importance of pottery in the Greek world or that of the<br >steam engine in the nineteenth century. He may argue that the<br >idea of infinity is as important for philosophy and art today as it<br >
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这本书中最让我感到困惑的是其对“时间”的处理方式。它不是线性的推进,更像是被拉伸、扭曲、甚至在某些地方被完全冻结的物质。作者经常在某一个瞬间的描摹上花费巨量的篇幅,仿佛时间本身凝固了,而我们只能通过极其微小的、几乎不可察觉的细节变化来感知时间流逝的痕迹。这种对“当下”的极度放大,固然能营造出一种悬浮的、非现实的氛围,但同时,也使得大段大段的背景变化和长期发展被一笔带过,显得草率。例如,某个跨越数年的重要事件,在书中可能只用寥寥数语概括,而角色一次短暂的凝视却可能占据好几页篇幅。这种反常的时间感,使得读者很难建立起对人物命运长期发展的代入感,更像是在阅读一系列精心制作的、高分辨率的静态摄影作品的集合,而非一部持续流动的电影。
评分我必须指出,这本书在人物塑造方面存在着显著的不平衡。一方面,作者对核心人物的内心世界进行了近乎病态的、近乎自恋的深入挖掘,每一个细微的情绪波动都被放大成了史诗般的内在剧变;然而,另一方面,那些推动情节发展的次要角色,却被描绘得如同行走的符号或功能性的道具,扁平得令人遗憾。他们缺乏呼吸感,动机常常是单薄且服务于主角成长的工具。举例来说,一个原本应该展现出复杂矛盾的配角,他的全部存在价值似乎就是为了在特定时刻提供一个必要的转折点,然后迅速退场,不留一丝值得回味的痕迹。这种厚此薄彼的写作手法,使得整个故事的群像显得摇摇欲坠,主角的光芒虽然耀眼,却也因此显得孤立无援,故事的张力因此大打折扣,让人感觉像是在看一个被精心打磨的独角戏,而不是一个多维度的世界。
评分从结构上看,这部作品的整体布局更像是一系列紧密相连但主题略有漂移的论文集,而非一部传统意义上的小说。作者似乎对主题的探索抱有一种近乎强迫症般的执着,总是在故事进行到高潮时,突然插入大段的、与当前情境关联不大的理论阐述或历史背景回顾。这种“知识倾泻”的模式,虽然体现了作者深厚的学识储备,但却极大地破坏了叙事的连贯性。每当故事即将触及情感爆发点时,总有一股冰冷、理性的力量将其拉回冷静的分析层面。这让读者产生一种疏离感——我们似乎被邀请进入了一个思想的迷宫,但却总是在关键的岔路口被告知:“等等,我们先来回顾一下十七世纪的某些哲学流派。”对于期待一个纯粹、一气呵成的故事体验的读者来说,这种结构上的反复拉扯无疑是一种巨大的考验。
评分这本书的叙事节奏简直像是被踩了急刹车后又突然狂飙突进的过山车,让人在阅读过程中精神高度紧绷。作者似乎非常偏爱那种在细枝末节处不断堆砌细节的手法,以至于有些章节读起来像是在翻阅一本详尽的、有些过时的技术手册,而不是在跟随一个引人入胜的故事线。我记得其中有一段对某个复杂系统内部运作原理的描绘,花了整整三页的篇幅,每句话都充满了专业术语和冗余的限定词,感觉作者恨不得把自己的整个研究笔记都塞进来。这使得情节的推进显得异常缓慢,很多关键的情感冲突点也被这些密集的、冰冷的描述性文字所稀释和掩盖了。如果说作者的目的是想营造一种沉浸式的、完全被技术细节包围的氛围,那么他确实成功了——但代价是牺牲了流畅性和读者的耐心。我不得不承认,在某些需要快速掌握核心概念的地方,我不得不放慢速度,甚至需要回翻好几页才能重新跟上作者那跳跃的逻辑链条,这种体验无疑是相当费力的。
评分这本书的语言风格呈现出一种奇异的、近乎于巴洛克式的华丽与晦涩的结合体,它不像是在讲述故事,更像是在进行一场精心编排的、情绪饱满的独白。句式极其冗长,充满了复杂的从句和大量的修饰语,仿佛每一个名词都需要被赋予至少三个形容词才能得到充分的“尊重”。我在阅读时常常需要停下来,重新解析一个句子的主干和真正的含义,因为作者似乎热衷于将所有信息都塞进一个巨大的、结构精密的句子容器里。这种写作方式,虽然在某些特定段落——比如描绘内心挣扎或哲学思考的瞬间——能产生一种庄严而深刻的艺术效果,但在处理日常对话或简单场景时,就显得矫揉造作,拖沓冗余。读者很容易被这种文风“带偏”,在不知不觉中忽略了故事本身应该提供的那些更直接的情感冲击力,反而沉溺于对文字结构的欣赏或困惑之中。
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