Born in Haifa, Israel, David Deutsch was educated at Cambridge and Oxford universities. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and a professor of physics at the University of Oxford, where he is a member of the Centre for Quantum Computation. His many honors include the Institute of Physics' Paul Dirac Prize and Medal. The author of The Fabric of Reality, he lives in England.
This is a bold and all-embracing exploration of the nature and progress of knowledge from one of today's great thinkers. Throughout history, mankind has struggled to understand life's mysteries, from the mundane to the seemingly miraculous. In this important new book, David Deutsch, an award-winning pioneer in the field of quantum computation, argues that explanations have a fundamental place in the universe. They have unlimited scope and power to cause change, and the quest to improve them is the basic regulating principle not only of science but of all successful human endeavor. This stream of ever improving explanations has infinite reach, according to Deutsch: we are subject only to the laws of physics, and they impose no upper boundary to what we can eventually understand, control, and achieve. In his previous book, "The Fabric of Reality", Deutsch describes the four deepest strands of existing knowledge - the theories of evolution, quantum physics, knowledge, and computation-arguing jointly they reveal a unified fabric of reality. In this new book, he applies that worldview to a wide range of issues and unsolved problems, from creativity and free will to the origin and future of the human species. Filled with startling new conclusions about human choice, optimism, scientific explanation, and the evolution of culture, "The Beginning of Infinity" is a groundbreaking book that will become a classic of its kind.
我原以为量子物理学家的思想层次应该是很高的,没想到看完前4章就很失望。对于我来说,这本书完全无法给我提供任何新的智慧,却浪费了很多时间去读它。作者通篇的观点都是老旧过时的,如果说这本书写于1990年以前,那么认为它还是值得一读的。但是它是2014年出版的啊!书的名字...
评分无穷的开始算是一本哲学书,其中夹带着很多物理知识,看的是原版书,很多内容没有完全明白。该书有两点感悟。第一人类的发展过程归结于对社会未知现象的解释,第二人类取得重大进步,和乐观的态度有很大关系。 人类刚诞生不久,对自然世界一无所知,所以人类过得很艰难。后来...
评分 评分作者在量子力学上有一家之言(也仅仅是量子力学诠释的少数派),但一越界,基本上就是武断的自言自语了。在哲学上,作者倒是立场鲜明,但过于愤青了,除了波普尔,就没有他看得上的。有人说是鸡肋,我看基本上就是不值一提。
评分Disappointed. Where's your point?
评分In seek of good explanation
评分把道金斯、霍金一顿批,作者对人类特别有信心,也不盲目,希望如此吧。写作很僵硬,读着像在做逻辑题。
评分其实是本讨论哲学的书.
评分把道金斯、霍金一顿批,作者对人类特别有信心,也不盲目,希望如此吧。写作很僵硬,读着像在做逻辑题。
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