Day: April 13, 2019

Ch1 L30: Beliefs – part VI (Magics)

April 13, 2019 8 Comments

The concept of causality [1] has enabled us to react to causes instead of effects and the belief [2] in it has directed us to look for the causes of phenomena. In fact, we can analyze the history of Sapiens based on the type of causes they’ve assigned to the things around. Sir James Frazer [3], in “The golden bough” […]

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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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Day: April 13, 2019

Ch1 L30: Beliefs – part VI (Magics)

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