Daniel C. Dennett is University Professor and Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University and the author of numerous books including Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking, Breaking the Spell, Darwin’s Dangerous Idea, and Consciousness Explained.
发表于2024-12-25
From Bacteria to Bach and Back 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
不要被这本书的标题愚弄了。在哲学家丹尼尔·丹内特探讨意识的最新大作中,与细菌相关的微乎其微,与巴赫相关的仅有一段简短的插叙。然而,恰如他直言不讳的那样,他热爱头韵,大写字母,以及新词。他也曾写过数本与心灵、意识和进化有关的书,因此我们有理由发问:在这本宣传...
评分不要被这本书的标题愚弄了。在哲学家丹尼尔·丹内特探讨意识的最新大作中,与细菌相关的微乎其微,与巴赫相关的仅有一段简短的插叙。然而,恰如他直言不讳的那样,他热爱头韵,大写字母,以及新词。他也曾写过数本与心灵、意识和进化有关的书,因此我们有理由发问:在这本宣传...
评分不要被这本书的标题愚弄了。在哲学家丹尼尔·丹内特探讨意识的最新大作中,与细菌相关的微乎其微,与巴赫相关的仅有一段简短的插叙。然而,恰如他直言不讳的那样,他热爱头韵,大写字母,以及新词。他也曾写过数本与心灵、意识和进化有关的书,因此我们有理由发问:在这本宣传...
评分不要被这本书的标题愚弄了。在哲学家丹尼尔·丹内特探讨意识的最新大作中,与细菌相关的微乎其微,与巴赫相关的仅有一段简短的插叙。然而,恰如他直言不讳的那样,他热爱头韵,大写字母,以及新词。他也曾写过数本与心灵、意识和进化有关的书,因此我们有理由发问:在这本宣传...
评分不要被这本书的标题愚弄了。在哲学家丹尼尔·丹内特探讨意识的最新大作中,与细菌相关的微乎其微,与巴赫相关的仅有一段简短的插叙。然而,恰如他直言不讳的那样,他热爱头韵,大写字母,以及新词。他也曾写过数本与心灵、意识和进化有关的书,因此我们有理由发问:在这本宣传...
图书标签: 哲学 Daniel_Dennett 进化论 心理学意识丹尼尔·丹尼特 ##心理学 科普 大脑 Dennett
One of America’s foremost philosophers offers a major new account of the origins of the conscious mind.
How did we come to have minds?
For centuries, this question has intrigued psychologists, physicists, poets, and philosophers, who have wondered how the human mind developed its unrivaled ability to create, imagine, and explain. Disciples of Darwin have long aspired to explain how consciousness, language, and culture could have appeared through natural selection, blazing promising trails that tend, however, to end in confusion and controversy. Even though our understanding of the inner workings of proteins, neurons, and DNA is deeper than ever before, the matter of how our minds came to be has largely remained a mystery.
That is now changing, says Daniel C. Dennett. In From Bacteria to Bach and Back, his most comprehensive exploration of evolutionary thinking yet, he builds on ideas from computer science and biology to show how a comprehending mind could in fact have arisen from a mindless process of natural selection. Part philosophical whodunit, part bold scientific conjecture, this landmark work enlarges themes that have sustained Dennett’s legendary career at the forefront of philosophical thought.
In his inimitable style―laced with wit and arresting thought experiments―Dennett explains that a crucial shift occurred when humans developed the ability to share memes, or ways of doing things not based in genetic instinct. Language, itself composed of memes, turbocharged this interplay. Competition among memes―a form of natural selection―produced thinking tools so well-designed that they gave us the power to design our own memes. The result, a mind that not only perceives and controls but can create and comprehend, was thus largely shaped by the process of cultural evolution.
An agenda-setting book for a new generation of philosophers, scientists, and thinkers, From Bacteria to Bach and Back will delight and entertain anyone eager to make sense of how the mind works and how it came about.
4 color, 18 black-and-white illustrations
囫囵吞枣的看完丹内特的意识进化和解释,为什么我觉得他多少具有康德的革命性!我们都是基因和模因共同演化出来的产物,而演化论的视角的确可以作为思维工具和哲学方法论。总之感觉自己的视野提升了,视角也增加了,腰不酸腿不疼了,不过这可能也是意识的幻觉,哈哈!最后对AI恐慌的讨论也很精准,即使深度学习,AI最多达到波普尔生物的认知水平,具备贝叶斯试错能力。与其担心人工智能,不如担心人类自己的自负和非理性,放弃思考把重大决定权交给机器才是悲剧。对AI的过度拟人化,被他们的声音和视觉形象误导,可能类似于让宠物狗来教育孩子。所以,机器归机器,幻觉归幻觉,意识归意识。如果AI想提高自己的读心术,增强帮我们做决定的能力,让它滚!如果AI帮我们提升自己做出理性决策的能力,让它来!
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评分最近才知道,作者是无神论四骑士之一,其他三人的书都读过,这是第一次读他的。competence和comprehension,行未必知,知未必行,第一处棒喝。罗嗦是当然的,要面对信仰上帝的大多数,讲解自然选择下意识和智能之诞生,对付读者认知惯性何等艰难。Matt Ridley那本就是小学生习作。可能是今年读过最重要的一本书,进化论、信息论、笛卡尔、AI等等,至少需要重读两遍。
评分心灵如何产生?简单的回答,心灵是一种思维工具,它不断地进化,以至于到了能够知道自己存在,甚至知道自己如何进化的程度。怎样的思维工具?词语,听说读写,画地图,制作罗盘,望远镜,电脑,互联网,等等。我们知道病毒的存在,狗不知道,海豚,猩猩也不知道。我们是唯一有思维工具的物种。
From Bacteria to Bach and Back 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书