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.
“真实世界的脉络”描述了我们当前知识中最深刻的4条支线--进化,量子物理学,知识和运算,以及它们带来的世界观。“无穷的开始”将这种世界观应用于许多不同的话题和未解问题。 他的核心结论是:“解释”在宇宙中有着基础性地位。解释的范围和造成改变的能力是无穷无尽的。它...
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 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...
In seek of good explanation
评分和前作The Fabric of Reality一樣精彩,David Deutsch用此書進一步詮釋瞭自己的世界觀,嚴密的邏輯讓我被徹底徵服瞭,說醍醐灌頂並不為過。沒有瞭對人生意義的質疑,充滿瞭對科學和進步的信心。這信心不是來自於以往科學的成就,而是來自於他的哲學。所以說三觀真的很重要。提綱挈領的一本書。好書的一條標準就是提供瞭一個學習的目錄——它的觸手伸嚮哪裏,有的放矢
评分和前作The Fabric of Reality一樣精彩,David Deutsch用此書進一步詮釋瞭自己的世界觀,嚴密的邏輯讓我被徹底徵服瞭,說醍醐灌頂並不為過。沒有瞭對人生意義的質疑,充滿瞭對科學和進步的信心。這信心不是來自於以往科學的成就,而是來自於他的哲學。所以說三觀真的很重要。提綱挈領的一本書。好書的一條標準就是提供瞭一個學習的目錄——它的觸手伸嚮哪裏,有的放矢
评分和前作The Fabric of Reality一樣精彩,David Deutsch用此書進一步詮釋瞭自己的世界觀,嚴密的邏輯讓我被徹底徵服瞭,說醍醐灌頂並不為過。沒有瞭對人生意義的質疑,充滿瞭對科學和進步的信心。這信心不是來自於以往科學的成就,而是來自於他的哲學。所以說三觀真的很重要。提綱挈領的一本書。好書的一條標準就是提供瞭一個學習的目錄——它的觸手伸嚮哪裏,有的放矢
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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