On September 3, a small victory for Chinese occurred. A Chinese philosophy book on the Amazon e-book list, the world's largest e-commerce website, and its sales have topped the list in several categories such as philosophy and science and mathematics.
Number one on the philosophy list
Number one on the science list
This happened during the book's first promotion. Philosophy and science are generally the traditional fields of Westerners, and the books on the list at the same time are all foreign languages. Chinese book to top the first place is rare, or perhaps never, ever.
Many books bubble up on Amazon and disappear, how can this Chinese new book be on the top of the list of hot sellers such as philosophy and science? First of all, the book covers a wide range of fields, rich content, and is highly readable, and different readers can find the parts of interest. The more important book is the end of philosophy. It also gives answers to many questions, such as: What is the meaning of life? What is money? Why is there a divide between the rich and the poor? How can I make money? Why is there a war? Where does life, old age, illness and death come from? Why is the world fickle? Where does faith come from? What is the future of humanity? Wait a minute.
Many questions speak slowly. The public account 'Tip of Time' has launched a number of articles about various parts of the book, including China (Chinese and small triumphs of Chinese thinking: the first selling on amazon's philosophical science list), philosophy (the end of philosophy (Part 1): the completion of Heidegger's unfinished Chinese of Existence and Time), and finance (wealth code: the pursuit of money with a limited life!). Is it worth it? Isn't it worth it? ), Science (Science Demystifying: Ignorance Is Invisible), Mathematics (Mathematics: The Source of Enlightenment), etc. The above article can be read by clicking on the link. If you are interested and want to know more, you can enter 'Reader' in the public account 'Tip of Time' to obtain a QR code to join the reader group.
Mentioned in the previous China section. This book addresses the fundamental question of philosophy, which heidegger asks at the beginning of the first chapter of Introduction to Metaphysics, why is there something everywhere and not nothing?
A brief history of philosophical development is reviewed in the end of philosophy part I (The end of philosophy (Part I): the completion of Heidegger's unfinished Chinese of Existence and Time), and also pauses in the interpretation of Heidegger's unfinished Existence and Time. This book also answers this basic question he asked. Heidegger has been called the greatest philosopher of the 20th century, and this book also ended human philosophy because of the completion of Existence and Time. Since the philosophical theories of this book are derived from a large amount of knowledge related to physical mathematics and economics, and because the length of the book can only cite the general context of the book, the content of this article is not enough to draw conclusions, and interested readers can read the whole book. The following is an excerpt.
Excerpt from Chapter 1 Life and Entropy, Summary of Verse 8
Life, enterprises, institutions, governments, and countries are all dissipative structures, all exist in a low-entropy manner, and in order to maintain the survival of these dissipative structures, it is necessary to carry out the continuous input of energy and information, and when the input of energy and information ends, especially when the energy input ends, or when the input is no longer received, these dissipative structures will end. The meaning of life lies in the fact that life exists in a low-entropy way, which includes the meaningless way of existence of life as we usually know it, as well as the meaning of various ways of development. Since we humans have produced private property, there are commodities and exchange. And all commodities, including special commodity currencies, are manifestations of low entropy, either they are low entropy themselves or endorsed by low entropy entities, or they exist to sustain the low entropy of life. Simply put, entropy minus = life = money = commodity.
Excerpt from Chapter 3 Brain and Cognition Section 10 Summary
Summarizing the conclusions of the first three chapters, the first chapter is entropy reduction = life = money = commodity. The second chapter is that the purchaser generates monetary income with the consideration of life, and then uses the money to buy goods. The third chapter is entropy reduction is value, life is against price, and money promotes transactions. The first chapter qualitatively analyzes the relationship between entropy reduction and life, money, and commodities, and simply describes a certain equivalence relationship between them in terms of equal signs. The second chapter analyzes from the buyer's point of view the process by which the buyer sells the equivalent of life such as time in exchange for income and then buys the goods. From the process, it shows the source and circulation of value within the human value system. The third chapter sorts out and unifies the conclusions of the first two chapters, and analyzes in detail the role of the brain and the corresponding process of judging entropy reduction in the transaction process. Summarize the theory of value, price and trading based on entropy reduction.
Excerpt from Chapter 5 The Ternary Model and the Meaning of Life Section 4 Life and Existence
In this complex process, the actual existence of entropy reduction, the cognition of entropy reduction in the brain and brain, and the entropy reduction of money itself play a key role. They represent value, price and currency in the ternary model.
It is not difficult to draw a conclusion from the first part. According to the second law of thermodynamics, the existence of reality continues to develop in the direction of increasing entropy, while life is in this direction, pushing and maintaining the decrease of entropy with everything in life. Among them, the human brain's cognition and judgment of entropy reduction, as well as the existential entropy reduction and the entropy reduction created and created by humans play a key role in the whole process.
The second law of thermodynamics is also known as the arrow of time because it states that entropy may be the only physical quantity we now know of that varies one way over time. And the meaning of life is that life reverses the direction of time on a small scale. Life is like a great anti-celestial being moving alone in the vast universe.
Excerpt from Chapter 7 Entropy and the Philosophical View of Science Verse 8 Existence and Life Are Unified in Entropy
The meaning of life is entropy reduction. If life cannot continue to exist and maintain a state of decreasing entropy, it will eventually perish, that is, entropy increase, and existing life is left over from the past elimination filter (entropy increase after entropy increase). Life is about entropy reduction that can be sustained, and all existing life will find new sustainable ways of reducing entropy in order to continue to exist.
This is the most basic philosophical view of the world. Please read this small passage several times, in the vast universe, in the long river of time, any one of us can only see and hear a small piece of contact. Any one of us is just a result, and we can only use this to deduce the past and the future, to deduce what is happening in distant places. So why are we here and where are we going? If you only use two sentences to explain, then it may be these two sentences. To sum it up simply, I come from nowhere and subtract entropy.
Excerpt from Chapter 7 Entropy and the Philosophical View of Science Section 10 Entropy and the Philosophical View of Science
Here, A brief adjustment to the philosophical perspective of this book is made, and the meaning of life is traced back to the beginning of a more original exploration. The logical relationship between this is that as different individuals gradually increase, a distribution is formed on a macroscopic level, and the distribution forms an entropy reduction. The view in this book is updated to be different about the meaning of life. Life has been trying differently, success survives, failure destroys. All existing life exists because of the constant successful attempts at different ones, and the attempts at different ones will continue. Here some adjustments have been made to the narrative, changing entropy reduction to a more general word in the sense, differently, giving the narrative a more essential way of describing.
From a developmental and individual point of view, in the beginning it is only because energy and motion bring about differences from the individual point of view or from the point of view of distribution, while some differences or unevenness can be maintained under certain coincidences, and some forms of retention are achieved in the form of inheritance and restart. Life, on the other hand, is a more complex inheritable difference. The emergence of life will have two effects on the world, one is that life will gradually have the ability to recognize, pay attention to the differences in reality, and gradually understand the distribution, so there is an increase or decrease in entropy and entropy from the perspective of information. From the perspective of the group, life will be copied in large quantities, analyzed and treated the world with the same behavior, so there are phenomena such as fractals and chaos, and human understanding of this part of the phenomenon is far from enough. Therefore, from a philosophical point of view, the development of life is gradually accumulated from simple to complex, and the specific process of development and accumulation will be analyzed in detail in the subsequent chapters of the second part. When life develops to a more complex extent, entropy reduction becomes the goal of life, and to some extent, the meaning of life is entropy reduction. This proposition is based on the perspective of complex creatures like us, and the transition from simple to complex is a process.
In terms of time stages, this description can be divided into three parts, present, past, and future. For a newborn life, the world is strange, it is difficult to understand what is entropy, perhaps after the wind and rain cold and heat may be summed up the impermanence of life, very intelligent may know the increase in entropy, know that to maintain the dissipative structure must be continuously input energy, know that changing information requires energy input, know that the correct information can effectively use energy, so that the necessary energy to maintain life may be reduced. The smarter ones may be able to see the rise and fall of life. And most life inevitably be overwhelmed by impermanence, encountering good opportunities, such as successful hunting, wind and rain, you have to pass, when you encounter sadness, you are depressed and nervous, confused and even pray. Sometimes something is done with good results, just try again, if there are always good results, do more; on the contrary, do less to do something harmful, and if there is always a problem, don't do it again. This is how all existing life exists after a steady and successful attempt at entropy reduction, which continues. Philosophically, it is also existentialism and pragmatism. The scientific point of view is to observe, hypothesize, test falsifiable propositions, and determine whether they are theories. This part is very closely related to the actual situation, and even simple enough to make people feel that it is not a theory. So the discussion is not going on. As for the many stories in other religions, theology, etc., most of them cannot be confirmed, and will be discussed more in the next three or four or five parts.
The past is not directly known to all life. There are several ways to understand, and after observation, assume that certain things happen frequently and do not change much each time, such as the cycle of time, the birth and death of life. After observing the life stages and worldly cycles of creatures similar to yourself, you can also try to deduce the development of more creatures and other things. Smart people may sum up reincarnation, summarize evolution. And the genius's conclusion is the thing-self, the absolute spirit, the will to life, the will to power. Let's look at the relationship between these ideas and the entropy theory. In fact, smart readers must have understood the relationship here. Let us put aside the question of the self and appearance of things and the question of appearances later, the discussion of the integration of the material and spiritual worlds from Hegel is itself the same, and Hegel, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche all agreed that there is a force that drives the development of all things. This driving force is entropy, and the process is that the meaning of life is entropy reduction. Life is always trying to reduce entropy, success is survival, failure is destruction. The main difference between the philosophers is that Schopenhauer emphasized the difficult parts of failure, demise, and attempt, while Nietzsche emphasized the success and survival parts. The follow-up effects of these two parts, such as Schopenhauer's pain and pessimism, Nietzsche's positive innovation of the strong, and the timid hypocrisy of the weak, can also be well combined with the entropy theory.
The present is the result of the past, the beginning of the future, the point of convergence of the past and the future. The present is the result of the confirmation of success after all past attempts to reduce entropy, and the beginning of attempts to reduce entropy in the future. The past is already determined, but the future is unknown. Only two things seem to be certain, the first is to continue to try to reduce entropy, and the second is those known and unknown laws of mathematics, logic, and science. In fact, the deep understanding of entropy is also gradually realized on the basis of the understanding of mathematics, logic and science. Seeing that if you are still interested in philosophy here, you can skip ahead to Part V, Chapter XX, to see Heidegger's theory, in which his relation to the existence of time has a cross-reference to the above.
Pay attention to the end of philosophy (Part II) (The end of philosophy (Part 2): the completion of Heidegger's unfinished Chinese of Existence and Time)
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