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发表于2024-12-22
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This is a bold and all-embracing exploration of the nature and progress of knowledge from one of today's great thinkers. Throughout history, mankind has struggled to understand life's mysteries, from the mundane to the seemingly miraculous. In this important new book, David Deutsch, an award-winning pioneer in the field of quantum computation, argues that explanations have a fundamental place in the universe. They have unlimited scope and power to cause change, and the quest to improve them is the basic regulating principle not only of science but of all successful human endeavor. This stream of ever improving explanations has infinite reach, according to Deutsch: we are subject only to the laws of physics, and they impose no upper boundary to what we can eventually understand, control, and achieve. In his previous book, "The Fabric of Reality", Deutsch describes the four deepest strands of existing knowledge - the theories of evolution, quantum physics, knowledge, and computation-arguing jointly they reveal a unified fabric of reality. In this new book, he applies that worldview to a wide range of issues and unsolved problems, from creativity and free will to the origin and future of the human species. Filled with startling new conclusions about human choice, optimism, scientific explanation, and the evolution of culture, "The Beginning of Infinity" is a groundbreaking book that will become a classic of its kind.
Born in Haifa, Israel, David Deutsch was educated at Cambridge and Oxford universities. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and a professor of physics at the University of Oxford, where he is a member of the Centre for Quantum Computation. His many honors include the Institute of Physics' Paul Dirac Prize and Medal. The author of The Fabric of Reality, he lives in England.
Blinkist扫过。可喜的是越来越多的人开始接触和了解科学哲学,其中包括许多优秀的科学家自己走出专业的象牙塔开始创作更普世化的科普读物,而且是从宏观理论甚至形而上层面而不是单一知识领域层面来拓展和加深大众对于科学甚至科学哲学的认知。Seek critical thought, conjecture and good explanations. Knowledge from experience&theories. Good ideas replicate. systems of knowledge jumps to universality. rational&democratic group decision making is impossible. optimist.
评分Blinkist扫过。可喜的是越来越多的人开始接触和了解科学哲学,其中包括许多优秀的科学家自己走出专业的象牙塔开始创作更普世化的科普读物,而且是从宏观理论甚至形而上层面而不是单一知识领域层面来拓展和加深大众对于科学甚至科学哲学的认知。Seek critical thought, conjecture and good explanations. Knowledge from experience&theories. Good ideas replicate. systems of knowledge jumps to universality. rational&democratic group decision making is impossible. optimist.
评分In seek of good explanation
评分把道金斯、霍金一顿批,作者对人类特别有信心,也不盲目,希望如此吧。写作很僵硬,读着像在做逻辑题。
评分Disappointed. Where's your point?
无穷的开始算是一本哲学书,其中夹带着很多物理知识,看的是原版书,很多内容没有完全明白。该书有两点感悟。第一人类的发展过程归结于对社会未知现象的解释,第二人类取得重大进步,和乐观的态度有很大关系。 人类刚诞生不久,对自然世界一无所知,所以人类过得很艰难。后来...
评分严格意义上,这也不是一篇针对本书的书评,但这本书确实可以串联起一系列的阅读经验,姑且放在这里了。 在我有限的阅读半径中,经历过两次重大的跃迁,改变我对世界的认知方式和思维路径。 第一次是贾雷德·戴蒙德的《枪炮、病菌与钢铁》。在我即将从学校跨入社会,小心翼翼地...
评分基本的想法是说人类的进步从启蒙运动开始,速度越来越快。基本的原因是科学的进步(作者解释为人类寻求“好解释”的本能)。比较深奥,我又是在过年老家中和回来的路上看的,环境不够安静,很多地方没看懂。 基本确定没看懂是因为我水平不够,而不是作者写的不好。因为涉及到...
评分基本的想法是说人类的进步从启蒙运动开始,速度越来越快。基本的原因是科学的进步(作者解释为人类寻求“好解释”的本能)。比较深奥,我又是在过年老家中和回来的路上看的,环境不够安静,很多地方没看懂。 基本确定没看懂是因为我水平不够,而不是作者写的不好。因为涉及到...
评分Po 一下 10-18 章的笔记. 这本书越到后面越精彩. ## 第10章: 苏格拉底的梦 ----- *认知论* > 触摸一个物体的感觉并没有发生在我们体验到它发生的地方, 即不在手触及的地方, 而在头脑里的某一处. 我们所能接触到的世界是一堆信号: 光学, 声学, 触觉, 嗅觉, 听觉信号: 因为...
The Beginning of Infinity pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024