具體描述
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.
著者簡介
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.
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讀後感
作者在量子力学上有一家之言（也仅仅是量子力学诠释的少数派），但一越界，基本上就是武断的自言自语了。在哲学上，作者倒是立场鲜明，但过于愤青了，除了波普尔，就没有他看得上的。有人说是鸡肋，我看基本上就是不值一提。
評分非常精彩，体现了物理学家解释无穷宇宙的终极雄心。多伊奇高举波普尔猜想与反驳的大旗，论证了人类通过创造知识，在并不宜居的地球上生存。他比较了生物的适应性进化和人类知识的创造，其差异在于人类的知识是解释性的，可以无限延伸。他对谜米的进化做出了精彩的论述。 在我看...
評分作者是量子物理学家，全书是他对世界、历史、科学的看法和思考。科学事实和哲学思辨差不多各占一半的篇幅，读起来有点烧脑，也有点枯燥，内容比较发散。 作者认为，人类解决不完所有的问题，总是解决了老问题发现新问题，不存在完全没有问题的极乐世界，也不会有某些时刻人类更...
評分严格意义上，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...
評分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...
用戶評價
touched by such passionate optimism
评分In seek of good explanation
评分In seek of good explanation
评分Blinkist掃過。可喜的是越來越多的人開始接觸和瞭解科學哲學，其中包括許多優秀的科學傢自己走齣專業的象牙塔開始創作更普世化的科普讀物，而且是從宏觀理論甚至形而上層麵而不是單一知識領域層麵來拓展和加深大眾對於科學甚至科學哲學的認知。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掃過。可喜的是越來越多的人開始接觸和瞭解科學哲學，其中包括許多優秀的科學傢自己走齣專業的象牙塔開始創作更普世化的科普讀物，而且是從宏觀理論甚至形而上層麵而不是單一知識領域層麵來拓展和加深大眾對於科學甚至科學哲學的認知。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.
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