On September 3, a small victory for Chinese occurred. A Chinese philosophy book on the amazon (Amazon.com) e-book list, the world's largest e-commerce site, and sales have rushed to the top of 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 the Chinese chapter (Chinese and the small victory of Chinese thinking: the first place in the Amazon Philosophical Science List), the philosophy chapter (the end of philosophy (part 1): the completion of Heidegger's unfinished "Existence and Time" Chinese book, the end of philosophy (medium): the completion of Heidegger's unfinished "Existence and Time" Chinese book), please read the end of philosophy (middle) before continuing to read this article, finance (wealth code: the pursuit of money with limited life!). Is it worth it? Isn't it worth it? ), Science (Science Demystifying: Ignorance Is Invisible), Mathematics, etc. (Mathematics: The Source of Enlightenment). 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.
Excerpt from Chapter 7 Entropy and the Philosophical View of Science Section 13 Maximum Entropy
A combination of the philosophical theories of maximum entropy and entropy can lead to more important results. The process is that when life is striving for entropy reduction, when the number is scaled, if the interaction between individuals produces the effect of entropy increase, then the population is also affected by the second law of thermodynamics, and the large number of behaviors analyzed in the first part of the transaction is this behavior that causes the population to eventually stabilize at maximum entropy. Note that the interaction between individuals is the assumption that entropy increases, just as in thermodynamic systems, the constant movement and collision of molecules causes the temperature to gradually unify, and under this hypothetical condition, the population reaches the maximum entropy state is also a necessary result. Thus a more complete theory of entropy is that the meaning of life is different. 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. If interactions between individuals result in an increase in entropy, the population eventually stabilizes to some state of maximum entropy.
Excerpt from Chapter 10 Biological Evolution Section 5 Energy Intake and Consciousness
To summarize briefly, this section is one of the key subsections of the book. Before this section, more on the subsequent effects of entropy reduction and entropy reduction, the effects of fractals will gradually become apparent after this section. And the core connection point of most of the phenomena and analyses in this book lies in the brain, which is related to the cognition of the world in which life is located, and it is also related to the behavior that guides life after cognition. And when a large number of organisms make judgments and actions in similar ways, a fractal structure is formed in a certain fractal structure as a whole from the perspectives of sociology, religion, and human behavior dynamics. Here the first half of the book ends gradually, while the second half will gradually unfold. From the third part from the entropy reduction part to the entropy increase part, as a single life has always pursued entropy reduction, but a large number of phenomena that occur in society are the result of entropy increase, and the problem will be gradually developed in the future.
Excerpt from Chapter 11 Layering and the Onion Model Section 5 Generalized Trading and The Collapse of the Three-Body Story
Overall observation, assuming that the wealth difference between people and people is not large at the beginning, gradually becomes the maximum entropy under ordinary transactions, that is, the power law distribution of wealth, in this process the participants in the transaction are willing to obtain more information, and the decision is relatively rational. If it continues, it will cause the wealth gap to widen, and further will form a second stage of entropy, which is manifested in the performance of transaction participants will try to keep key information as confidential as possible, due to the lack of information, there are many cases where people are difficult to be rational. So in the case of this three entropy subtractions of buyer, seller, and currency, the ideal state is a cyclic state from the average to the power law to the average. The ideal here is not to say that people want to produce this form of cycle, but that in theory human society produces such a cycle under certain restrictions. These restrictions include, for example, that people do not accept hierarchical differentiation. This process will be experienced again and again. What is slightly gratifying is that the process will always precipitate the entropy reduction created by many individual people, so that the society continues to spiral.
It should also be added that when it is difficult for ordinary people to bring the possibility of a better life through their own efforts and cognition, will the entropy increase brought about by war and so on will occur? The answer is no, there needs to be an important condition in this, that is, whether people feel that people should be equal. For example, we can see that there have been many peasant uprisings in Chinese history, some of which have finally led to dynastic changes, and the slogans played are also very consistent, such as the emperor taking turns to do it, coming to my house next year, such as not suffering from widowhood but inequality, and officials forcing the people to rebel. If people accept the idea of hierarchy, the chances of such a generalized destructive increase in entropy are greatly reduced.
Excerpt from Chapter 11 Stratification and the Onion Model, Section 9 Summary
The analytical framework of this chapter creates the possibility of explaining complex problems from the interrelationship between multiple entropy subtractions, one entropy reducer is a self-circulating model, the most typical is DNA and money; the relationship between two entropy subtractions is relatively simple, that is, competition and cooperation, and we also see that the cooperation of DNA and money also produces various phenomena in human society; and the relationship becomes more complex from the beginning of the three entropy subtractions, and the most common in complex relationships is the phenomenon of fluctuations. Subsequent chapters will continue this line of thinking for more complex situations. The analysis method of this chapter is still qualitative, and through qualitative analysis, the cyclical process of human economy and society from average to wealth differentiation to average can also be obtained, and the complex ups and downs in human society can also be explained.
Excerpt from Chapter 15 Religion and Equality Section 1 Overview of Religion
The second main thread lies in the wave spread of the development and distribution of human wealth brought about by private property, and religion plays a key stabilizing role. Human society will form a power law distribution of wealth distribution in economic activities, that is, wealth differences and stratification. The difference in wealth does not only occur in a region, but also varies greatly from region to region because of different climates, geographical environments, etc. In this case, if the redistribution of wealth is forcibly carried out by violent means such as war and robbery, it will often bring huge wealth losses. Thus religion arose, that is, to use religion to protect wealth from being destroyed by war and other reasons, and at the same time to make people accept the inequality of this wealth. Most religions use some way, more commonly good and evil and the afterlife, to appease people and make people accept the status quo. Some religions take the initiative to redistribute wealth and reduce wealth disparities.
Excerpt from Chapter 15 Religion and Equality Section 4 Hinduism
In Chapter XI, Section VI, several stages after the differentiation of wealth formation are analyzed, including, generalized trading, contraction equilibrium, and expansion stratification. Note that the main driving force of society in the stage of wealth differentiation is economic factors, industrial manufacturing agriculture and merchants, the main driving force of society in the broad trading stage is the military, and religion becomes the basic force of stable society in the stage of contraction equilibrium, and then it is again development. In this cycle, the equilibrium stage of contraction achieves a relatively stable level in the hierarchical model, so according to the dominant force of social development, it is likely that the later the force element at each time the stable state is realized, the more important the political structure. So in India, brahmins have the highest status, followed by the Shaktiri, then the Vedas of industry and commerce, and finally the ordinary Sudra.
Excerpt from Chapter 19 Physics and Mathematics Chapter 10 Heat Death?
In this unfolded universe, a hierarchy has been formed under various constraints, and at present life can only be seen in its own and nearby levels, doing some small things to reverse the behavior of the universe with difficulty. Life may be a phenomenon that is tightly integrated with the universe. The universe is much larger than the life phenomena we know, and at the same time, in the microscopic field, it is also beyond the reach of the life phenomena we know.
Excerpt from Chapter 20 Philosophy and God Verse 4 Necessity and Possibility
Everything never arises, the universe has undergone a process of multiple generations and destruction, and the process of generation and destruction has a basic driving force, and the driving force continues to evolve in the many generations and destruction of the universe. Our universe was propelled by these fundamental forces. The universe in which we live is divided into many levels, and we can only understand the nearest few levels at present, because beyond these levels we have no means to observe, so our thinking and speculation cannot be verified. We are also driven by fundamental forces, and in order for ourselves to exist, the constant reproduction limits our ability to observe, and we can only know part of the world. Entropy, energy, information, time, and space in our hierarchy may be fundamental forces or the appearance of more fundamental forces, influencing the course of life in many ways. On the contrary, life also drives the evolution of the universe as a force. Summed up in one sentence, existence is the medal of existence.
Thus the book also answers the basic questions of metaphysics. This article is limited in space and cannot be fully discussed, so please pay attention to the follow-up science, mathematics, and subsequent articles. However, the complete process of discussion still requires reading the entire book.
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