Fa pena veure el pobre blog tan abandonat; però mira noi, les vacances són les vacances i ja es tracta d’això, de perdre’s de vista més que el filferro del pa bimbo i tornar amb la capacitat renovada d’experimentar estrès i mala llet.
Per la reentrada us deixo amb un fragment d’un dels llibre d’aquest estiu: El curiós incident d’un gos a mitjanit, de Mark Haddon. L’autor ens posa a la pell d’un nen autista, de manera tan hàbil que al final trobem la mar de lògic per exemple asseure’ns a terra, tapar-nos les orelles i posar-nos a cridar per tal de no sentir ni veure les gent que en envolta en un tren. Figura que el propi nen autista escriu un llibre, i aquesta és una de les coses que escriu (no ho tradueixo perquè això és literatura, no un article de recerca, i no li vull desgraciar l’obra a l’autor):
“People believe in God because the world is very complicated and they think it is very unlikely that anything as complicated as a flying squirrel or the human eye or a brain could happen by chance. But they should think logically anf if they thought logically they would see that they can only ask this question because it is already happened and they exist. And there are billions of planets where there is no life, but there is no one in those planets with brains to notice. And it is like if everyone in the world was tossing coins eventually someone would get 5.698 heads in a row and they would think they were very special. But they wouldn’t be because there would be millions of people who didn’t get 5.698 heads.
And there is life on earth because of an accident. But it is a very special kind of accident. And for thos accident to happen in this special way, there have to be 3 Conditions. An these are:
Things have to make copies of themselves (this is called Replication).
They have to make small mistakes when they do this (this is called Mutation).
These mistakes have to be the same in their copies (this is called Heritability)
And these conditions are very rare, but they are possible, and they cause life. And it just happens. But it doesn’t have to end up with rhinoceroses and human beings and whales. It could end up with anything.
And for exemple, some people say how can an eye happen by accident? Because an eye has to evolve from something else very like an eye and it doesn’t just happen because of a genetic mistake, and what is the use for half an eye? But half an eye is very useful because half an eye means that an animal can see half on an animal that wants to eat it and get out of the way, and it will eat the animal that only has a thid of an eye or 49% of an eye instead because it hasn’t got out of the way quick enough, and the animal that is eaten won’t have babies because it is dead.
And people who believe in God think God has put human beings on the earth because they think human beings are the best animal, but human beings are just an animal and they will evolve into another animal, and that animal will be cleverer and it will put human beings into a zoo, like we put chimpanzees and gorillas into a zoo. Or human beings will catch a disease and die out or they will make too much pollution and kill themselves, and then there will only be insects in the world and they will be the best animal.”
Mark Haddon .The curious incident of the dog in the night-time. Vintage UK Random House 2003
Per la reentrada us deixo amb un fragment d’un dels llibre d’aquest estiu: El curiós incident d’un gos a mitjanit, de Mark Haddon. L’autor ens posa a la pell d’un nen autista, de manera tan hàbil que al final trobem la mar de lògic per exemple asseure’ns a terra, tapar-nos les orelles i posar-nos a cridar per tal de no sentir ni veure les gent que en envolta en un tren. Figura que el propi nen autista escriu un llibre, i aquesta és una de les coses que escriu (no ho tradueixo perquè això és literatura, no un article de recerca, i no li vull desgraciar l’obra a l’autor):
“People believe in God because the world is very complicated and they think it is very unlikely that anything as complicated as a flying squirrel or the human eye or a brain could happen by chance. But they should think logically anf if they thought logically they would see that they can only ask this question because it is already happened and they exist. And there are billions of planets where there is no life, but there is no one in those planets with brains to notice. And it is like if everyone in the world was tossing coins eventually someone would get 5.698 heads in a row and they would think they were very special. But they wouldn’t be because there would be millions of people who didn’t get 5.698 heads.
And there is life on earth because of an accident. But it is a very special kind of accident. And for thos accident to happen in this special way, there have to be 3 Conditions. An these are:
Things have to make copies of themselves (this is called Replication).
They have to make small mistakes when they do this (this is called Mutation).
These mistakes have to be the same in their copies (this is called Heritability)
And these conditions are very rare, but they are possible, and they cause life. And it just happens. But it doesn’t have to end up with rhinoceroses and human beings and whales. It could end up with anything.
And for exemple, some people say how can an eye happen by accident? Because an eye has to evolve from something else very like an eye and it doesn’t just happen because of a genetic mistake, and what is the use for half an eye? But half an eye is very useful because half an eye means that an animal can see half on an animal that wants to eat it and get out of the way, and it will eat the animal that only has a thid of an eye or 49% of an eye instead because it hasn’t got out of the way quick enough, and the animal that is eaten won’t have babies because it is dead.
And people who believe in God think God has put human beings on the earth because they think human beings are the best animal, but human beings are just an animal and they will evolve into another animal, and that animal will be cleverer and it will put human beings into a zoo, like we put chimpanzees and gorillas into a zoo. Or human beings will catch a disease and die out or they will make too much pollution and kill themselves, and then there will only be insects in the world and they will be the best animal.”
Mark Haddon .The curious incident of the dog in the night-time. Vintage UK Random House 2003
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5 comentaris:
jajajaja, no recordava aquest fragment! no es pot dir que l'encerti en tot, però fa gràcia.
Si, simplifica una mica substituint variabilitat per mutació i prou, i no parlant de selecció natural. Però m'agrada la crítica al "principi antròpic fort" del primer paràgraf, i l'explicació gradualista contra el diseny intel·ligent. El més curiós és que això ni pintava res en el llibre, estava un amica fora de context, per això em va agradar, és com dir que si ets emocionalment pla però la lògica la portes bé, aquesta et porta a la teoria de l'evolució i no a Deu. La religió és un rollo emocional i el nen autista no l'enganxa per enlloc :0)
jeje, sí, però la lògica el porta també a dir coses absurdes, com "But half an eye is very useful because half an eye means that an animal can see half on an animal that wants to eat it and get out of the way", o frases que porten a conclusions incorrectes com "but human beings are just an animal and they will evolve into another animal, and that animal will be cleverer and it will put human beings into a zoo, like we put chimpanzees and gorillas into a zoo", del que es pot desprendre que els humans hem evolucionat del ximpanzé o el goril·la. Jo em venia a referia a això amb el meu comentari, però veig per on vas :) Realment és un llibre molt bo!
Si, tens raó. De fet ho havia considerat sense parar-hi atenció, metàfores; però és veritat que el nen autista diu que odia les metàfores pq no les entén. De tota manera penso que és un bona explicació, pq si bé és veritat que no es tracta de mitjos ulls si que es tracta d'ulls més o menys complexes o sensibles.
He buscat si havies fet crítica del llibre a la biblosfera però no l'he trobat. Per cert, com es busca un llibre concret en el teu blog? A part de la classificació, hi ha alguna llista de llibre comentats o alguna cosa així? M'ho acceptes com a suggerència? ;0)
no, el vaig llegir abans de començar biblosfera (ja he dit que feia molt temps que el vaig llegir :P)
t'accepto la suggerència encantada, perquè cada vegada que vull fer referència a un llibre que sé que he comentat m'agafa un atac de nervis. Suposo que hauria d'instalar-hi un cercador google o alguna cosa així.
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