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كون متميز: إعادة ابتكار الفيزياء من أساسها
by Robert B. Laughlin
...and I don't plan to finish it, either.
To be entirely fair, I tried to skim the first 5 and last couple chapters, since it was due tomorrow and I didn't have the time/effort to actually read it.
I agree with what many of the other reviews say. Pro: discusses an important high-level idea (emergence) (see P.W. Anderson's More is Different).
The rest is...objectively, a lot of anecdotes about how this idea relates to various parts of life, told in fairly layman's terms.
From my perspective, these fell flat and seemed like they were about to get interesting but failed to; the execution felt like a half explaining basic physics, 30% rambly anecdotes, 20% emphasizing how cool emergence is. And don't get me wrong - emergence is really cool! This just wasn't my preferred way of learning about it.
To be entirely fair, I tried to skim the first 5 and last couple chapters, since it was due tomorrow and I didn't have the time/effort to actually read it.
I agree with what many of the other reviews say. Pro: discusses an important high-level idea (emergence) (see P.W. Anderson's More is Different).
The rest is...objectively, a lot of anecdotes about how this idea relates to various parts of life, told in fairly layman's terms.
From my perspective, these fell flat and seemed like they were about to get interesting but failed to; the execution felt like a half explaining basic physics, 30% rambly anecdotes, 20% emphasizing how cool emergence is. And don't get me wrong - emergence is really cool! This just wasn't my preferred way of learning about it.