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.
在看其他人评价以前,我一定要先把自己的感悟写下来。首先说,这本书带给我的冲击力是很大的。它引起了我的想象,世界是否真的是由数学构成的。书虽然是以历史顺序展开,但是在每段历史的叙述涉及了不同的领域,这些观点值得我们探讨。 首先,作者提出了假设:1.无意识...
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评分在看其他人评价以前,我一定要先把自己的感悟写下来。首先说,这本书带给我的冲击力是很大的。它引起了我的想象,世界是否真的是由数学构成的。书虽然是以历史顺序展开,但是在每段历史的叙述涉及了不同的领域,这些观点值得我们探讨。 首先,作者提出了假设:1.无意识...
评分在看其他人评价以前,我一定要先把自己的感悟写下来。首先说,这本书带给我的冲击力是很大的。它引起了我的想象,世界是否真的是由数学构成的。书虽然是以历史顺序展开,但是在每段历史的叙述涉及了不同的领域,这些观点值得我们探讨。 首先,作者提出了假设:1.无意识...
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评分合作推进人类结构演变和文明发展进程,并带领社会向更好的某种既定未来的进化。 很多新颖观点,值得重读。
评分合作推进人类结构演变和文明发展进程,并带领社会向更好的某种既定未来的进化。 很多新颖观点,值得重读。
评分合作推进人类结构演变和文明发展进程,并带领社会向更好的某种既定未来的进化。 很多新颖观点,值得重读。
评分合作推进人类结构演变和文明发展进程,并带领社会向更好的某种既定未来的进化。 很多新颖观点,值得重读。
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