Robert Wright is the author of Three Scientists and Their Gods and The Moral Animal, which was named by the New York Times Book Review as one of the twelve best books of the year and has been published in nine languages. A recipient of the National Magazine Award for Essay and Criticism, Wright has published in The Atlantic, The New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, Time, and Slate. He was previously a senior editor at The New Republic and The Sciences and now runs the Web site nonzero.org. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and two daughters.
At the beginning of Nonzero, Robert Wright sets out to "define the arrow of the history of life, from the primordial soup to the World Wide Web." Twenty-two chapters later, after a sweeping and vivid narrative of the human past, he has succeeded — and has mounted a powerful challenge to the conventional view that evolution and human history are aimless.
Ingeniously employing game theory — the logic of "zero-sum" and "non-zero-sum" games — Wright isolates the impetus behind life's basic direction: the impetus that, via biological evolution, created complex, intelligent animals and then, via cultural evolution, pushed the human species toward deeper and vaster social complexity. In this view, the coming of today's interdependent global society was "in the cards" — not quite inevitable, perhaps, but, as Wright puts it, "so probable as to inspire wonder." So probable, indeed, as to invite speculation about higher purpose, especially in light of "the phase of history that seems to lie immediately ahead: a social, political, and even moral culmination of sorts."
In a work of vast erudition and pungent wit, Wright takes on some of the past century's most prominent thinkers, including Isaiah Berlin, Karl Popper, Stephen Jay Gould, and Richard Dawkins. He finds evidence for his position in unexpected corners, from native American hunter-gatherer societies and Polynesian chiefdoms to medieval Islamic commerce and precocious Chinese technology; from conflicts of interest among a cell's genes to discord at the World Trade Organization.
Wright argues that a coolly scientific appraisal of humanity's three-billion-year past can give new spiritual meaning to the present and even offer political guidance for the future. Nonzero will change the way people think about the human prospect.
發表於2024-06-28
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這很可能是一本被大傢低估的書。雖然羅伯特萊特並沒有通過一本書最終能說服我信仰他的曆史的方嚮性(我寜願繼續相信波普爾說的曆史根本無法預測),但是其對文化進化論上的實證研究非常值得一讀。 作者文化進化論的核心觀點是:生物進化也好,文化進化也好,都是沿著一個方嚮前...
評分 評分這是全球腦小組主席弗朗西斯·海拉恩推薦的一本書。 http://www.globalbrain.cn/cn/article.php/568 書的開頭有些沉悶,講瞭很多古代的狩獵社會。直到中間時,纔開始探討全球腦思想以及超級有機體、文化因子(meme)等概念,讀起來逐漸變得令人振奮。 總之,這是一本好書!
評分 評分圖書標籤: Robert_Wright 進化心理學 社會學 全球化 社會 心理學 原版 game
閤作推進人類結構演變和文明發展進程,並帶領社會嚮更好的某種既定未來的進化。 很多新穎觀點,值得重讀。
評分閤作推進人類結構演變和文明發展進程,並帶領社會嚮更好的某種既定未來的進化。 很多新穎觀點,值得重讀。
評分閤作推進人類結構演變和文明發展進程,並帶領社會嚮更好的某種既定未來的進化。 很多新穎觀點,值得重讀。
評分閤作推進人類結構演變和文明發展進程,並帶領社會嚮更好的某種既定未來的進化。 很多新穎觀點,值得重讀。
評分閤作推進人類結構演變和文明發展進程,並帶領社會嚮更好的某種既定未來的進化。 很多新穎觀點,值得重讀。
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