This Explains Everything
内容简介
In This Explains Everything, John Brockman, founder and publisher of Edge.org, asked experts in numerous fields and disciplines to come up with their favorite explanations for everyday occurrences. Why do we recognize patterns? Is there such a thing as positive stress? Are we genetically programmed to be in conflict with each other? Those are just some of the 150 questions that the world's best scientific minds answer with elegant simplicity.
With contributions from Jared Diamond, Richard Dawkins, Nassim Taleb, Brian Eno, Steven Pinker, and more, everything is explained in fun, uncomplicated terms that make the most complex concepts easy to comprehend.
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作者简介
The publisher of the online science salon Edge.org, John Brockman is the editor of The Universe, This Explains Everything, This Will Make You Smarter, and other volumes. He is the founder of the literary agency Brockman, Inc., and lives in New York City.
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读书文摘
宇宙主要由暗物质组成。我们看不到，但它具有强大的重力。心灵的意识层面，有如宇宙可见的部分，只是心灵世界的一小部分。心灵的暗物质，也就是无意识，具有最强大的心灵重力。无视宇宙中的暗物质就会出现反常现象。忽略心灵的暗物质，我们的非理性就会难以理解。
皮尔逊直接将随机性与概率分布合二为一，从而使我们对可能性谨慎思考，并量化我们对特殊阐释的信心，因而我们可以对事物是否具有特殊意义做出更好的评估，这样我们就能够更好地达成“人类目标”。
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