A Thousand Brains : A New Theory of Intelligence

Jeff Hawkins
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A best-selling author, neuroscientist, and computer engineer unveils a theory of intelligence that will revolutionize our understanding of the brain and the future of AI.

For all of neuroscience's advances, we've made little progress on its biggest question: How do simple cells in the brain create intelligence? Jeff Hawkins and his team discovered that the brain uses map-like structures to build a model of the world - not just one model, but hundreds of thousands of models of everything we know. This discovery allows Hawkins to answer important questions about how we perceive the world, why we have a sense of self, and the origin of high-level thought. A Thousand Brains heralds a revolution in the understanding of intelligence. It is a big-think book, in every sense of the word.

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為工作而活 : 生存、 勞動、 追求幸福感、一部人類的工作大歷史 (Work: A History of How We Spend Our Time)

詹姆斯．舒茲曼 (James Suzman)
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傳統經濟學思維告訴我們：「工作即謀生！」
但本書要你跳脫經濟學思維，以跨學科的觀點，全面理解工作的意義！

★★《人類大歷史》作者哈拉瑞盛讚！★★

原始社會物資匱乏，人類祖先卻能悠閒過活，每週只要工作15小時？
反觀現代社會技術發達，我們卻加班過勞、甚至害怕被未來AI取代！

是人類主宰工作，還是工作支配了生活？
大量湧現的工作真有存在意義嗎？
我們今天是否為了滿足社會的期待，導致人們為了忙碌而忙碌？

●織雀勤奮築巢、也勤奮拆巢，這看似無意義的工作竟是演化所需？
●狩獵採集者從不擔心糧食匱乏，為什麼改當農夫後卻拼命囤積糧食？
●為什麼有人的職業是遛狗？學校裡的行政人員人數怎麼會超越教職員人數？
●古代人習慣把工作轉嫁給水牛和奴隸，現代人為何害怕被機器人搶走飯碗？

綜觀人類三十萬年的歷史，我們幾乎從來不曾像今天這樣，把工作看得如此重要。那麼，人類是從何時開始將工作視為生活的核心？

■跳脫經濟學思維，以跨學科的觀點，全面解讀人類工作的意義！
■當工作成為義務，人們卻創造更多無意義的工作，把自己推入窮忙的火坑？

本書結合人類學、考古學、生物學、物理學和經濟學等多學科的觀點，從人類誕生一路談到AI時代，解讀不同時代驅使人類工作的動力。本書也點出，我們今天之所以把工作看得比狩獵採集祖先還要重要，就在於我們的工作模式與工作觀，隨著文明變革發生了多次改變。然而，如果我們曾經不為工作而活，那麼如今的我們究竟是為了自己而工作，還是甘願被工作綁架？

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The Secrets of Us

Lucinda Berry
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Dangerously addictive, The Secrets of Us is a pulse-pounding exploration of a disturbed psyche and the bond between two sisters desperate to escape a troubled past.

Foster sisters Krystal and Nichole have always been there for each other, so when Nichole is committed to a psychiatric hospital after trying to kill her husband, Krystal drops everything to defend her.

Scarred by a hard upbringing, Nichole and Krystal managed to construct comfortable lives for themselves. Krystal became a respected lawyer, and Nichole was happily married to an architect—until Nichole starts raving that her husband isn’t her husband, believing that he’s an imposter.

Driven by fierce loyalty, Krystal starts asking questions, but she’s not sure she can bear the answers. Her investigation leads to the sisters’ dark shared past…to a horrible tragedy and a well-guarded lie that cemented their sisterly bond.

But that lie can’t kill the truth—the battered, gasping, clawing truth that’s coming for them both. Now Krystal and Nichole must both fight for the lives they’ve built before they’re consumed by the one they left behind.

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不輸給雨 : 宮澤賢治短篇作品選

宮澤賢治
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啟發宮崎駿、手塚治虫、藤子不二雄等眾多動漫創作家的思想源泉
收錄宮崎駿動畫《龍貓》的靈感來源作品——〈橡子與山貓〉
日本國民作家宮澤賢治經典作品
在困難重重的世界，溫暖撫慰善良的心靈短篇

宮澤賢治是日本的國民作家，熱愛自然，熱愛生命。他的作品充滿了想像力和對生命的善意，是無數現代藝術家的靈感源泉。

《不輸給雨》《橡子與山貓》《要求多多的餐館》《奧茨貝爾和大象》《貓的事務所》《夜鷹星》《拉大提琴的戈什》……七篇治癒心靈的經典作品，給疲乏的心靈以慰藉，給善意以鼓舞，給想像力以自由。

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The Great Demographic Reversal: Ageing Societies, Waning Inequality, and an Inflation Revival

Charles Goodhart, Manoj Pradhan
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Foreign Affairs The Best of Books 2021

This original and panoramic book proposes that the underlying forces of demography and globalisation will shortly reverse three multi-decade global trends – it will raise inflation and interest rates, but lead to a pullback in inequality. “Whatever the future holds”, the authors argue, “it will be nothing like the past”. Deflationary headwinds over the last three decades have been primarily due to an enormous surge in the world’s available labour supply, owing to very favourable demographic trends and the entry of China and Eastern Europe into the world’s trading system. This book demonstrates how these demographic trends are on the point of reversing sharply, coinciding with a retreat from globalisation. The result? Ageing can be expected to raise inflation and interest rates, bringing a slew of problems for an over-indebted world economy, but is also anticipated to increase the share of labour, so that inequality falls. Covering many social and political factors, as well as those that are more purely macroeconomic, the authors address topics including ageing, dementia, inequality, populism, retirement and debt finance, among others.

This book will be of interest and understandable to anyone with an interest on where the world’s economy may be going.

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見微知著 : 心靈故事選萃

李怡
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李怡三本暢銷書《細味人生100篇》、《閱讀人生100篇》、《感悟人生100篇》之文章選集，重新編排。

我從二十歲開始，就過着閱讀、編輯、寫作的生涯。數十年來，讀過的書不少（當然想讀而沒有讀的就更多），人生經歷過許多起伏跌宕，在社會上看到最多的並非「失敗乃成功之母」，而"是「成功乃失敗之母」。許多人從高處落下，不是不夠聰明，而是沒有自知之明。

我慢慢發現一些生活的小故事，一些漫不經心的話語，實際上蘊含着生活的大智慧。講出來似乎卑之無甚高論，但若成為時刻警惕自己的座右銘，則對一個人的一生可以有很大影響，甚至帶來關鍵性的轉變。十多年來，我將收集到的小故事，加上自己的解釋和領悟，寫成好幾本關於人生的書。這些書在銷售一時之後，這幾年已沒有重印。現在從這些書中選出我認為最有意思的一百多篇，以新的書名重新出版。

成語「見微知著」的意思，是見到些微跡象，就可以從中知道整個真象和發展趨勢。用作書名，是表示從一些小故事中可以領悟到的大道理和生活智慧。──李怡

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