无穷的开始
[英]戴维·多伊奇（David Deutsch）
跨越量子力学、进化论与哲学的宏大边界，你将洞察到“解释”如何成为驱动文明进化的核心力量。它不仅重塑了我们对现实与创造力的认知，更以严密的理性逻辑揭示了：只要持续创造知识，人类便能解决一切问题，踏上一场永无止境的乐观探索之旅。
The Quest for Good Explanations
Explores the fundamental difference between bad and good explanations, establishing that progress depends on theories that are hard to vary.
The Reach of Theories
The 'Hard to Vary' Test
Realism vs. Empiricism
Humanity's Cosmic Significance
Argues that humans are not cosmically insignificant, but rather central to the universe as 'universal explainers'.
The Spark of Reason
The Great Unification
Evolution and Knowledge
Compares biological evolution with human creativity, highlighting the limitations of genetic knowledge versus explanatory knowledge.
Biological Evolution as Knowledge
The Creative Leap
Emergence and Meaning
Defends the reality of high-level abstractions against the reductionist view that only subatomic particles 'really' exist.
The Reality of Abstractions
The Failure of Reductionism
Systems of Universality
Investigates how systems like the alphabet, numerals, and computers undergo a 'jump to universality'.
The Jump to Universality
Universal Constructors
The AI Myth
The Infinite Horizon
Uses mathematics and philosophy to argue that problems are soluble and that progress can be infinite.
Hilbert’s Hotel
The Principle of Optimism
The Quantum Reality
Explains the multiverse theory and critiques philosophies that hinder scientific and intellectual progress.
Shadow Photons
Bad Philosophy
The Flow of Time
Logic of Choice and Beauty
Applies the theory of knowledge to political systems and aesthetics, arguing for objective standards.
The Paradox of Choice
Objective Beauty
The Future of Progress
Distinguishes between static and dynamic cultures and argues for the sustainability of open-ended progress.
Static vs. Dynamic Societies
The Beginning of Infinity
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