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From Bacteria to Bach and Back
- The Evolution of Minds
- ナレーター: Tom Perkins
- 再生時間: 15 時間 44 分
- カテゴリー: 政治学・社会科学, 哲学
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Enlightenment Now
- The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
- 著者: Steven Pinker
- ナレーター: Arthur Morey
- 再生時間: 19 時間 49 分
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If you follow the headlines, the world in the 21st century appears to be sinking into chaos, hatred and irrationality. Yet, as Steven Pinker shows, if you follow the trendlines, you discover that our lives have become longer, healthier, safer and more prosperous - not just in the West but worldwide. Such progress is no accident: it's the gift of a coherent value system that many of us embrace without even realising it. These are the values of the Enlightenment: of reason, science, humanism and progress.
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Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking
- 著者: Daniel C. Dennett
- ナレーター: Jeff Crawford
- 再生時間: 13 時間 22 分
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Over a storied career, Daniel C. Dennett has engaged questions about science and the workings of the mind. His answers have combined rigorous argument with strong empirical grounding. And a lot of fun. Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking offers seventy-seven of Dennett’s most successful “imagination-extenders and focus-holders” meant to guide you through some of life’s most treacherous subject matter: evolution, meaning, mind, and free will.
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The Better Angels of Our Nature
- Why Violence Has Declined
- 著者: Steven Pinker
- ナレーター: Arthur Morey
- 再生時間: 36 時間 39 分
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Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think we live in the most violent age ever seen. Yet as New York Times bestselling author Steven Pinker shows in this startling and engaging new work, just the opposite is true: violence has been diminishing for millennia and we may be living in the most peaceful time in our species's existence.
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The Order of Time
- Narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch
- 著者: Carlo Rovelli
- ナレーター: Benedict Cumberbatch
- 再生時間: 4 時間 18 分
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Time is a mystery that does not cease to puzzle us. Philosophers, artists and poets have long explored its meaning while scientists have found that its structure is different from the simple intuition we have of it. From Boltzmann to quantum theory, from Einstein to loop quantum gravity, our understanding of time has been undergoing radical transformations. Time flows at a different speed in different places, the past and the future differ far less than we might think, and the very notion of the present evaporates in the vast universe.
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Darwin's Dangerous Idea
- Evolution and the Meanings of Life
- 著者: Daniel C. Dennett
- ナレーター: Kevin Stillwell
- 再生時間: 27 時間 4 分
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In a book that is both groundbreaking and accessible, Daniel C. Dennett, whom Chet Raymo of The Boston Globe calls "one of the most provocative thinkers on the planet", focuses his unerringly logical mind on the theory of natural selection, showing how Darwin's great idea transforms and illuminates our traditional view of humanity's place in the universe. Dennett vividly describes the theory itself and then extends Darwin's vision with impeccable arguments to their often surprising conclusions, challenging the views of some of the most famous scientists of our day.
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The Selfish Gene
- 著者: Richard Dawkins
- ナレーター: Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward
- 再生時間: 16 時間 12 分
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Richard Dawkins' brilliant reformulation of the theory of natural selection has the rare distinction of having provoked as much excitement and interest outside the scientific community as within it. His theories have helped change the whole nature of the study of social biology, and have forced thousands to rethink their beliefs about life.
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Enlightenment Now
- The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
- 著者: Steven Pinker
- ナレーター: Arthur Morey
- 再生時間: 19 時間 49 分
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If you follow the headlines, the world in the 21st century appears to be sinking into chaos, hatred and irrationality. Yet, as Steven Pinker shows, if you follow the trendlines, you discover that our lives have become longer, healthier, safer and more prosperous - not just in the West but worldwide. Such progress is no accident: it's the gift of a coherent value system that many of us embrace without even realising it. These are the values of the Enlightenment: of reason, science, humanism and progress.
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Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking
- 著者: Daniel C. Dennett
- ナレーター: Jeff Crawford
- 再生時間: 13 時間 22 分
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Over a storied career, Daniel C. Dennett has engaged questions about science and the workings of the mind. His answers have combined rigorous argument with strong empirical grounding. And a lot of fun. Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking offers seventy-seven of Dennett’s most successful “imagination-extenders and focus-holders” meant to guide you through some of life’s most treacherous subject matter: evolution, meaning, mind, and free will.
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The Better Angels of Our Nature
- Why Violence Has Declined
- 著者: Steven Pinker
- ナレーター: Arthur Morey
- 再生時間: 36 時間 39 分
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Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think we live in the most violent age ever seen. Yet as New York Times bestselling author Steven Pinker shows in this startling and engaging new work, just the opposite is true: violence has been diminishing for millennia and we may be living in the most peaceful time in our species's existence.
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The Order of Time
- Narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch
- 著者: Carlo Rovelli
- ナレーター: Benedict Cumberbatch
- 再生時間: 4 時間 18 分
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Time is a mystery that does not cease to puzzle us. Philosophers, artists and poets have long explored its meaning while scientists have found that its structure is different from the simple intuition we have of it. From Boltzmann to quantum theory, from Einstein to loop quantum gravity, our understanding of time has been undergoing radical transformations. Time flows at a different speed in different places, the past and the future differ far less than we might think, and the very notion of the present evaporates in the vast universe.
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Darwin's Dangerous Idea
- Evolution and the Meanings of Life
- 著者: Daniel C. Dennett
- ナレーター: Kevin Stillwell
- 再生時間: 27 時間 4 分
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In a book that is both groundbreaking and accessible, Daniel C. Dennett, whom Chet Raymo of The Boston Globe calls "one of the most provocative thinkers on the planet", focuses his unerringly logical mind on the theory of natural selection, showing how Darwin's great idea transforms and illuminates our traditional view of humanity's place in the universe. Dennett vividly describes the theory itself and then extends Darwin's vision with impeccable arguments to their often surprising conclusions, challenging the views of some of the most famous scientists of our day.
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The Selfish Gene
- 著者: Richard Dawkins
- ナレーター: Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward
- 再生時間: 16 時間 12 分
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Richard Dawkins' brilliant reformulation of the theory of natural selection has the rare distinction of having provoked as much excitement and interest outside the scientific community as within it. His theories have helped change the whole nature of the study of social biology, and have forced thousands to rethink their beliefs about life.
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The Strange Order of Things
- Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures
- 著者: Antonio Damasio
- ナレーター: Steve West, Antonio Damasio
- 再生時間: 9 時間
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The Strange Order of Things is a pathbreaking investigation into homeostasis, the condition that regulates human physiology within the range that makes possible not only the survival but also the flourishing of life. Antonio Damasio makes clear that we descend biologically, psychologically, and even socially from a long lineage that begins with single living cells; that our minds and cultures are linked by an invisible thread to the ways and means of ancient unicellular life and other primitive life-forms.
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The Sense of Style
- The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
- 著者: Steven Pinker
- ナレーター: Arthur Morey
- 再生時間: 12 時間 26 分
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In The Sense of Style, the best-selling linguist and cognitive scientist Steven Pinker answers these questions and more. Rethinking the usage guide for the 21st century, Pinker doesn’t carp about the decline of language or recycle pet peeves from the rulebooks of a century ago. Instead, he applies insights from the sciences of language and mind to the challenge of crafting clear, coherent, and stylish prose.
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The God Delusion
- 著者: Richard Dawkins
- ナレーター: Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward
- 再生時間: 13 時間 52 分
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Discover magazine recently called Richard Dawkins "Darwin's Rottweiler" for his fierce and effective defense of evolution. Prospect magazine voted him among the top three public intellectuals in the world (along with Umberto Eco and Noam Chomsky). Now Dawkins turns his considerable intellect on religion, denouncing its faulty logic and the suffering it causes.
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
- The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
- 著者: Shoshana Zuboff
- ナレーター: Nicol Zanzarella
- 再生時間: 24 時間 16 分
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism is neither a hand-wringing narrative of danger and decline nor a digital fairy tale. Rather, it offers a deeply reasoned and evocative examination of the contests over the next chapter of capitalism that will decide the meaning of information civilization in the 21st century. The stark issue at hand is whether we will be the masters of information and machines or its slaves.
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The Influential Mind
- What the Brain Reveals About Our Power to Change Others
- 著者: Tali Sharot
- ナレーター: Xe Sands
- 再生時間: 5 時間 24 分
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In The Influential Mind, neuroscientist Tali Sharot takes us on a thrilling exploration of the nature of influence. We all have a duty to affect others - from the classroom to the boardroom to social media. But how skilled are we at this role, and can we become better? It turns out that many of our instincts - from relying on facts and figures to shape opinions, to insisting others are wrong or attempting to exert control - are ineffective because they are incompatible with how people's minds operate.
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Lifespan
- Why We Age - and Why We Don’t Have To
- 著者: Dr David A. Sinclair, Matthew D. LaPlante
- ナレーター: Dr David A. Sinclair
- 再生時間: 11 時間 55 分
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For decades, the medical community has looked to a variety of reasons for why we age, and the consensus is that no-one dies of old age; they die of age-related diseases. That's because ageing is not a disease - it is inevitable. But what if everything you think you know about ageing is wrong? What if ageing is a disease? And that disease is curable. In Lifespan, Dr David Sinclair, one of the world’s foremost authorities on genetics and ageing, argues just that.
あらすじ・解説
What is human consciousness, and how is it possible? This question fascinates thinking people from poets and painters to physicists, psychologists, and philosophers. From Bacteria to Bach and Back is Daniel C. Dennett's brilliant answer, extending perspectives from his earlier work in surprising directions, exploring the deep interactions of evolution, brains, and human culture.
Part philosophical whodunit, part bold scientific conjecture, this landmark work enlarges themes that have sustained Dennett's legendary career at the forefront of philosophical thought. In his inimitable style - laced with wit and arresting thought experiments - Dennett shows how culture enables reflection by installing a bounty of thinking tools, or memes, in our brains. Language, itself composed of memes, turbocharged this interplay. The result, a mind that can comprehend the questions it poses, emerges from a process of cultural evolution.
An agenda-setting book for a new generation of philosophers and other researchers, From Bacteria to Bach and Back will delight and entertain anyone who hopes to understand human creativity in all its wondrous applications.
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- Caroline Smith
- 2018/02/13
Classic Dennett; maybe not for beginners!
If you're a Dennett fan you'll love it. But it's really dense; I had to listen to entire chapters over again before moving on just to make sure I'd "gotten" it. But it was totally worth it and I enjoyed every bit of it.
I wouldn't start out with this book if you're new to Dennett. It makes me want to go back and reread "Darwin's Dangerous Idea" and I think that is a good sort of "prequel" to this, as is "Consciousness Evolves." If you read and enjoy this book and haven't given those a listen, you really should. (I've also read and really loved "Breaking the Spell" and "Freedom Evolves," but they don't connect as much to this one as the others.)
I found it difficult to focus on if I was trying to multitask. It takes a lot of attention. Best for listening to while driving, washing the dishes, or going for a walk.
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- Mark
- 2017/03/15
How come there is a 'me'?
Consciousness has always been the greatest mystery to me. I fully believe in the idea that human beings are mammals evolved in accordance with the principles of Darwinian natural selection. I’m an atheist and I love the writing of people like Dawkins, Pinker and Hume, who are referred to often in this book.
It seems clear to me that there are also other animals who experience consciousness. By that I don’t mean that they are intelligent, although the ones I’m thinking of do have above average intelligence in the animal kingdom (dogs, cats, seals, dolphins, etc) but that they are aware of their experiences. They see and feel what is happening to them. They feel pain, hunger, fear – there’s more to it than just behaviouristic responses to environmental stimuli. I just don’t understand where this consciousness in humans and other animals came from.
I understand how the presence of the nervous system and painful stimuli will serve the Darwinian purpose of preventing you from doing damage to yourself, but I’ve never understood where the ‘me’ comes from who really feels the pain when I stub my toe. How do you get a ‘me’ from the movement of electricity through the central nervous system? If you built a computer as complicated as the human brain would it develop a ‘me’ and be ‘aware’? – I don’t think so (but I really don’t know that for sure).
This book addresses this question. Does it provide the answer? Sadly, no, not for me. It provides lots of interesting and helpful insights into the evolution of intelligence, but, unless I just didn’t get it, it doesn’t explain for me the emergent property of consciousness.
I’d still highly recommend it. I enjoyed every bit of it. I think I might listen to it again. But it didn’t answer the question for me. Maybe the question is unanswerable. Maybe it is beyond our understanding. Maybe we just have to accept that consciousness is just another of the many emergent properties that we see all around us in the natural and cultural world. I still don’t know.
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- Dan
- 2017/10/18
Interesting but difficult listening
Very interesting subject, views and insights but be prepared for a lot of pausing and rewinding to give yourself time to grasp the special terms and rather deep concepts It is written rather defensively with lots of references to his own and other contemporary work which meant that it took some time to deliver the message. I did enjoy listening to it but feel I need to listen to a lot of it again to be able to better comprehend it.
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- Han C.
- 2017/10/13
amazing dense and eye opening
this is the first book I actually had to listen to twice back to back before I actually understood what dennet was trying to communicate. darwinism about darwinism? memes as the viruses of culture? darwinian spaces? consciousness and understanding evolving out of competence? all of these things are incredibly confusing the first time around, but then incredibly obvious once it clicks. Dennett's book the second time around really did this for me. truly recommended to read them re read
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- Aleia Kim
- 2017/08/02
Showboats writing style, then muses on the mind
This book was a struggle to finish, since Dennet seemed to me to talk himself in circles gratuitously, if only to wind up (too late) at a pretty way of summarizing an argument that could be presented far more concisely.
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- Adam
- 2017/02/13
The only other review was so bad that I wrote this
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Anyone who has read any other work by Dennett knows what to expect. You're in for 15 hours of lucid, thought provoking prose guiding you through some of the deepest questions out there. There is no need to give any credence to the only other review so far which seems to be motivated solely by jealousy.
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- Andy G.
- 2020/02/29
Wordy, wordy, wordy
You’ll need a lot of patience with this book if you’re hoping to learn something. Dennett just goes on and on and on and on, and every few pages mentions a scientific bit. Ugh.
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- Erik C Stabell
- 2017/07/01
Fascinating but very dense book.
This is one of those rare books that I will reread several times to understand better.
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- David J. Zugman
- 2017/03/11
Consciousness explained and expanded
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
Daniel Dennett has an amazing brain and is a wordsmith of the 1st rank. It is astounding how much of Consciousness Explained's foresight is brought to fruition. Anyone thinking of artificial intelligence and what it might mean for society would do well to read this book. And anybody not thinking of it should.
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
1001 words is worth more than a picture. Great line, though his best remains, I think, "he's fighting a strawman and the strawman is winning."
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- Matthew Duncan
- 2018/12/22
spaghetti is a meme that sticks
reminds me of Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance... with all the meanderings and babbling ... but without an interesting sub plot.
there are hints of science and theory dispersed throughout, such as the three dimensions that describe the evolvability of a system. everything can be put into the context of a competitive, and thus evolving, system. some of these systems acquire inherent knowledge of their environment, and develop real-time if/then responses. the more complex, and faster to react, that an entity's compute system is, the better its fitness. these entities compete and naturally get into an computational arms race. at some point, the entities store knowledge and tools (affordances) in the environment. those groups which excel at this, prevail over less adroit groups. then, of course, the entities evolve incrementally more advanced cognitive abilities, and with it, higher levels of understanding. at some point, the understanding includes comprehension of how the brain/mind binding works, and how this mind connects a massive distributed fuzzy network of memes, many of them being nothing but cultural fables. finally, he gets to the idea of artificial computation manipulating memes and directly melding the reality (memes) seen by wetware brains. this artificial computation is itself without comprehension, but most of it is driven by the intentionality of cognizant beings. as it increases its competence across domains, it also increases its influence on everything, and becomes the essence of the overall system. at this point, humans become less important, and more of just cogs in a vast complexity engine.
I think Daniel Dennet might have said this, but with a huge layering of philosophy and arguments meandering through all of history, time and stotting space.
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- G Douglas Whistler
- 2017/03/12
An excellent Dennett exploration
This brilliant exploration through many fields of investigation is another triumph for one of the deepest thinking philosophers of our times. His style, as always, is accessible, clear, jovial, and entertaining, while his conclusions and food for thought are fascinating and convincing. An excellent new book, which invaluably updates, reexplains, and delves deeper into ideas with which listeners may already be familiar through his "Darwin's Dangerous Idea", "Consciousness Explained", "Freedom Evolves", and "Breaking the Spell".
The performance in this version is very strong; Perkins' voice and tone suit Dennett's style well, and he is to be praised for dealing well with Dennett's occasionally idiosyncratic sentence structure and use of grammatical syntax. There are several pronunciation mistakes, but nothing to distract from the text.
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- Mr M F C Rose
- 2017/04/10
Stunning vision of how minds evolved
I have a few Buddhist friends who must read this (they won't). Anyone of any spiritual bent should have a go. It presents a very different view to that of Deepak et al. It's grounded in science and destroys any dualist or monist interpretations. It isn't nihilistic/materialistic nor is it eternalism/essentialism. I think Dennett would agree with Nagarjuna (if he ever posited anything!) and show him a thing or two from the western 21st Century sciences. Long live the memes in this brilliant summation of Dennett's life-long exploration of the what (for), how and why of consciousness.
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- CM
- 2018/04/16
Profound
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This books is not easy to follow, I found myself rewinding several times - but then the subject matter is complex. I think the book would have been better read if it was read by the author. Overall I found it hard work, but enjoyable.
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- Jim W
- 2018/03/20
A lot of waffle
I’ve listened for a while now and heard a lot about these amazing theories that I will be hearing about, but he’s still yet to describe any of them. There is a lot of battling with himself and the voices in his head telling him he’s wrong for the various reasons (described at length), and a fair bit of off-topic discussion such as the ratio of male:female geniuses (spoiler: not the greatest revelation if you’re a woman), but I’m yet to hear anything about the mind. Who knows maybe the third hour is where all the revelations are. Sorry Dan, I’ve chosen ignorance.
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- Segismundo
- 2017/12/06
Read!
Wonderful!
I recommend chapters 12 t 14.
I think I will read the paper or Kindle version to allow me to ponder more!
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- s
- 2017/09/18
one of the most significant and insightful books!
One of the most significant and insightful books I've ever read. Maybe not for novices though..
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- Amazon Customer
- 2017/04/25
Waste of tine
I love the topic of consiouseness and evolution, but this was utterlly boaring and uninsightful. Nothing really new to the basic concepts of evolution, memes and mind theories.
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- droy
- 2017/03/21
Bach at it again
A great update to his books "Consciousness Explained" and "Darwin's dangerous idea". readers will get the most from this book if they have previously listened to Dennett's books, many of which are also available on audible.