The conditions for a beginning of infinity exist in almost every human habitation on Earth. Diamond can look at ancient Athens, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment - all of them the quintessence of causation through the power of abstract ideas - and see now way of attributing those events to ideas and to people; he just takes it for granted that the only alternative to one reductionist, dehumanizing reinterpretation of event is another.
They are treatises that weave together not just physics and astronomy but biology, mathematics, computer science, political science, psychology, philosophy, aesthetics, and--most important for Deutsch--epistemology, among other fields, in fashioning a profound new view of the world and the universe." That is to say, they emerge from individual minds as novel ideas, having acquired significant adaptations inside those minds.
Since humans are already universal explainers and constructors, they can already transcend their parochial origins, so there can be no such thing as a superhuman mind as such. I need to go back and re-read this book to really follow his reasoning though - it was a bit subtle. as a request for justification (what entitles you to assert that it is so? But, in reality, scientific theories are not "derived" from anything. It denied the legitimacy of traditional authorities, and that was salutary.
Deutsch is a physicist (of self-admittedly fringe beliefs in regards to some quantum theory) and I'm always a bit skeptical when subject-matter experts try to extrapolate outside of their areas of speciality - particularly when they do so on as massive a scale as Deutsch does in this book. Topics range from physics and philosophy to voting systems and alphabets to optimism and objective aesthetics to evolution and creationism, and even morality. Time subjective to our mental processing power.
I'm reminded of Shelly Kagan's claim in his "Death" Open Yale Course that we should hope there is no life after death because there is a finite amount of stuff to do and infinite heaven is actually infinite repetitive hell. US$11.95, US$8.68 Sign up to see what your friends are reading, get book recommendations, and join the world’s largest community of readers. Neither Malthus nor Rees intended to prophesy. It is knowledge alone that converts landscapes into resources, and humans alone who are the authors of explanatory knowledge and hence of the uniquely human behaviour called "history". And it regards science and the Enlightenment as no more than one such fashion and the objective knowledge claimed by science as an arrogant cultural conceit. All you need do is make the decision.
Overall, this book forced me to think about a lot of different areas of life and the universe from a highly rational and integrating perspective.
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And, fifth, it claims by this means to stand outside the jurisdiction of normal criticism. | 408g, Line drawings, black and white; Illustrations, black and white, Never Mind the B#ll*cks, Here's the Science, Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe, On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects, A Critical History and Philosophy of Psychology, An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science. This is why the Royal Society (one of the earliest scientific academies, founded in London in 1660) took as its motto "Nullius in verba", which means something like ‘Take no one’s word for it.’. It is not the source from which theories are derived. Perhaps inevitably, these charges are true of postmodernism itself: it is a narrative that resists rational criticism or improvement, precisely because it rejects all criticism as mere narrative… but the method of seeking good explanations creates an engagement with reality, not only in science, but in good philosophy too - which is why it works, and why it is the antithesis of concocting stories to meet made-up criteria. Similarly, if you reject the infinite, you are stuck with the finite, and the finite is parochial. : Lessons from Today's Experts to Give You that Competitive Edge, Achieving Results: Learn the Fast Track to Success in Business and in Life. They are, both individually and collectively, seeking the truth - or should be, if they are rational. Incidentally, Deutsch also claims that we shouldn't worry about alien invasions either. There is something wrong with the anthropic explanation of the fine-tuning problem: we can make fine-tuning go away just by relabeling the universes. Yet, as I shall explain, the are both false… the truth is that: People are significant in the cosmic scheme of things; and The Earth’s biosphere is incapable of supporting human life. Our brains, therefore, are designed not just to hunt and gather, but also to help us get ahead socially, often via deception and self-dec…, Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking, Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, The Great Mental Models, Volume 2: Physics, Chemistry and Biology, The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self, We’re used to thinking about the self as an independent entity, something that we either have or are. Its main use is to choose between theories that have already been guessed. Anything that says "Because I say so"... suggests static-society thinking. Deutsch agrees that that may have been the proximate cause of their demise, but that's like saying that "Caesar died because of improper iron management" when he got stabbed. In our own time, Deutsch recommends that we realize that there is no such thing as "sustainability." Thus the very question "Who should rule?" In the optimistic one, sustainability is the disease and people are the cure.
Easter Island] Attenborough regards the culture as having been very valuable and its fall as a tragedy. But the real cause would have been that one idea in the mind of that one hunter.
Yet I found much of the book to be very compelling. The idea that there could be beings that are to us as we are to animals is a belief in the supernatural. Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control, The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life, Human beings are primates, and primates are political animals. In the universe at large, knowledge-friendliness is the rule, not the exception. And to ban philosophy and politics and elections and that whole constellation of activities, and to consider them shameful…. There is only one known phenomenon which, if it ever occurred, would have effects that did not fall off with distance, and that is the creation of a certain type of knowledge, namely a beginning of infinity.
I have settled on a simple test for judging claims to have explained the nature of consciousness (or any other computational task): if you can’t program it, you haven’t understood it. 54:44 – Hotel Chapter. Virtually all of them could have avoided the catastrophes that destroyed them if only they had possessed a little additional knowledge… Very few, if any, could have been saved by greater caution about innovation. An entire political, moral, economic and intellectual culture - roughly what is now called "the West" - grew around the values entailed by the quest for good explanations, such as tolerance of dissent, openness to change, distrust of dogmatism and authority, and the aspiration to progress both by individuals and for the culture as a whole. We are both "universal explainers" and there is nothing that an AI could understand that humans could not. --The Economist "[Deutsch's books] are among the most ambitious works of nonfiction I have read, in that their aim is no less than an explanation of all reality. Begs for violent, authoritarian tyranny, and to the entrenchment of bad rulers and bad policies; it leads their opponents to violent destructiveness and revolution.
But when evolution takes place largely within an individual mind, it is not meme evolution. We do not read them in nature, nor does nature write them into us. US$25.95, US$9.78
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The way to converge with each other is to converge upon the truth. So they feel pride and shame, and form all their aspirations and opinions, by the criterion of how thoroughly they subordinate themselves to the society’s memes. Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, If you think the world is coming to an end, think again: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, the solutions lie in the Enlightenment id…, From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time, The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values, The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself, Already internationally acclaimed for his elegant, lucid writing on the most challenging notions in modern physics, Sean Carroll is emerging as one of the greatest humanist thinkers of his generation …, Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind, The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes, Challenging leading scientific theories that claim that our senses report back objective reality, cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman argues that while we should take our perceptions seriously, we shou…, The Open Society and Its Enemies - Volume One: The Spell of Plato, Popper was born in 1902 to a Viennese family of Jewish origin.
And therefore progress depended on learning how to reject their authority. As you read these words, copies of you are being created. What do we mean when we say "I"? It takes disparate topics and unites them in one powerful worldview. We use cookies to give you the best possible experience. It conceives of decision-making as a process of selecting from existing options according to a fixed formula… But in fact that is what happens only at the end of decision-making - the phase that does not require creative thought... at the heart of decision-making is the creation of new options and the abandonment or modification of existing ones.
But natural selection has given us a suite of ben…, Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood, James Gleick, the author of the best sellers, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined. Their cultures, too, cannot become static again. It is creativity by a heroic inventor. Existing accounts of memes fail to recognize the significance of the rational/anti-rational distinction and hence tend to be implicitly anti-meme. The key defect of compromise policies is that when one of them is implemented and fails, no one learns anything because no one ever agreed to it. For example, Deutsch says that we should not fear the Singularity because an Artificial Intelligence is no different than human intelligence.
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Society is not a zero-sum game: the civilization of the Enlightenment did not get where it is today by cleverly sharing out the wealth, votes or anything else that was in dispute when it began. Deutsch takes a deep dive into the nature of knowledge and human understanding, raising a profound question: is there a limit to what can be understood? Goodreads members who liked this book also liked: The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime. … In the advanced political cultures of the Enlightenment tradition the creation of knowledge can and should be paramount, and the idea that representative government depends on proportionate representation in the legislature is unequivocally a mistake. David Deutsch's "The Beginning of Infinity" is one of the more thought-provoking books I've read in the past few years. Death is the rule for those who do not.
According to some theories, the humans hunted them to extinction. But that is not the worst of it. US$12.99, US$17.88
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