The publisher of the online science salon Edge.org, John Brockman is the editor of The Universe, This Explains Everything, This Will Make You Smarter, and other volumes. He is the founder of the literary agency Brockman, Inc., and lives in New York City.
The bestselling editor of This Explains Everything brings together 175 of the world’s most brilliant minds to tackle Edge.org’s 2014 question: What scientific idea has become a relic blocking human progress?
Each year, John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org—”The world’s smartest website” (The Guardian)—challenges some of the world’s greatest scientists, artists, and philosophers to answer a provocative question crucial to our time. In 2014 he asked 175 brilliant minds to ponder: What scientific idea needs to be put aside in order to make room for new ideas to advance? The answers are as surprising as they are illuminating. In :
Steven Pinker dismantles the working theory of human behavior
Richard Dawkins renounces essentialism
Sherry Turkle reevaluates our expectations of artificial intelligence
Geoffrey West challenges the concept of a “Theory of Everything”
Andrei Linde suggests that our universe and its laws may not be as unique as we think
Martin Rees explains why scientific understanding is a limitless goal
Nina Jablonski argues to rid ourselves of the concept of race
Alan Guth rethinks the origins of the universe
Hans Ulrich Obrist warns against glorifying unlimited economic growth
and much more.
Profound, engaging, thoughtful, and groundbreaking, This Idea Must Die will change your perceptions and understanding of our world today . . . and tomorrow.
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一句話概括:那些需要被重新思考的科學概念。 讀後感: “讓我們陷入睏境的不是無知,而是看似正確的謬誤論斷。”—馬剋·吐溫 科學是在不斷發展的。理解瞭這一點,就不會陷入名為“科學概念”的謬誤論斷。 日常生活中,科學已經成為權威的代名詞。如...
評分一句話概括:那些需要被重新思考的科學概念。 讀後感: “讓我們陷入睏境的不是無知,而是看似正確的謬誤論斷。”—馬剋·吐溫 科學是在不斷發展的。理解瞭這一點,就不會陷入名為“科學概念”的謬誤論斷。 日常生活中,科學已經成為權威的代名詞。如...
評分這本書絕對算不上一本製作精良,論證完美,理論係統完備的好書。裏麵隻是文章的並列,而且文章和文章是肉眼可見的相互獨立。內容的覆蓋度上也相當的雜,有玄幻的宇宙大道理,有爭議性的基因遺傳,有接地氣的人類心理。 很多人可能被開篇大格局的宇宙大爆炸給勸退,或者錯以為看...
評分這本書絕對算不上一本製作精良,論證完美,理論係統完備的好書。裏麵隻是文章的並列,而且文章和文章是肉眼可見的相互獨立。內容的覆蓋度上也相當的雜,有玄幻的宇宙大道理,有爭議性的基因遺傳,有接地氣的人類心理。 很多人可能被開篇大格局的宇宙大爆炸給勸退,或者錯以為看...
評分這本書絕對算不上一本製作精良,論證完美,理論係統完備的好書。裏麵隻是文章的並列,而且文章和文章是肉眼可見的相互獨立。內容的覆蓋度上也相當的雜,有玄幻的宇宙大道理,有爭議性的基因遺傳,有接地氣的人類心理。 很多人可能被開篇大格局的宇宙大爆炸給勸退,或者錯以為看...
圖書標籤: 思維 科普 外文 腦科學/神經科學/認知/心理學/思維 方法論 方所 思考/思維 思維方式
居然,我還會來翻譯這麼高級的書。。
評分edge annual questions對我們理科生來說可讀性比munk semi-annual debates強一點
評分一幫學究們討論哪些流行觀念需要被拋棄。例如宇宙,左右腦,nature nurture etc。腦洞大開(30%),文學享受(10%),WTF(60%)。就乾貨比例而言,已經是空前絕後瞭。
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評分edge annual questions對我們理科生來說可讀性比munk semi-annual debates強一點
This Idea Must Die 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載