Day: February 15, 2019

Ch1 L23: On intelligence – part II (games)

February 15, 2019 3 Comments

In the last post, we opened up the discussion about the two complementary drives which help us adapt thus survive: assimilation and accommodation [1]. To investigate the process, let’s study it from the very beginning: when a baby is born. In parentheses, we should know that compared to other species, the humankind baby prematurely comes to the world since standing […]

To the readers

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.”