Month: November 2017

Ch1 L3: Fear (Part 1 – confidence)

November 29, 2017 18 Comments

Registering the thing [1] happened in less than a microsecond; then in order to survive, our brain needs to decide if it’s a danger or not, consequently to execute the best reaction. Imagine that you absolutely had no earthly knowledge to evaluate the thing, how would you decide if it’s dangerous or not? [2]

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My target readers are exactly those whom Einstein and Infeld have described in the preface of “the evolution of physics”: “Whilst writing the book we had long discussions as to the characteristics of our idealized reader and worried a good deal about him. We had him making up for a complete lack of any concrete knowledge of physics and mathematics by quite a great number of virtues. We found him interested in physical and philosophical ideas and we were forced to admire the patience with which he struggled through the less interesting and more difficult passages. He realized that in order to understand any page he must have read the preceding ones carefully. He knew that a scientific book, even though popular, must not be read in the same way as a novel.”

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Month: November 2017

Ch1 L3: Fear (Part 1 – confidence)

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