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发表于2025-06-15
The Beginning of Infinity pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2025
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.
In seek of good explanation
評分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.
評分其實是本討論哲學的書.
評分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.
評分把道金斯、霍金一頓批,作者對人類特彆有信心,也不盲目,希望如此吧。寫作很僵硬,讀著像在做邏輯題。
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...
評分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。
評分废话太多,以至于不少干货湮没在文字的汪洋大海中,作者尝试构建一种描绘式的推阐述体系,从各种旁枝末节出发,在大量与主题若即若离的案例中夹带一丢丢观点,这样的书阅读效率实在太低。好在似乎作者也意识到了这一点,每章后面加了个小结,感觉看小结就足够了。好吧,还是回...
評分废话太多,以至于不少干货湮没在文字的汪洋大海中,作者尝试构建一种描绘式的推阐述体系,从各种旁枝末节出发,在大量与主题若即若离的案例中夹带一丢丢观点,这样的书阅读效率实在太低。好在似乎作者也意识到了这一点,每章后面加了个小结,感觉看小结就足够了。好吧,还是回...
The Beginning of Infinity pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2025