出版社:台灣商務
出版日期:20060105
ISBN:9789570520163
作者:史帝芬．品克 (Steven Pinker)
《心智探奇》的笔记-第8页 - PREFACE
The linguist Noam Chomsky once suggested that our ignorance can be divided into problems and mysteries. When we face a problem, we may not know its solution, but we have insight, increasing knowledge, and an inkling of what we are looking for. When we face a mystery, however, we can only stare in wonder and bewilderment.
《心智探奇》的笔记-第521页
情緒正是能夠為我們頭腦定下最高目標的一種機制。只待幸運的一瞬到來，被激發的情感便會引發出一連串的次級目標和次次級目標出來，構成一種我們稱之為是思考和行動的程序。
《心智探奇》的笔记-第25页
What should a robot want?
The classic answer is Isaac Asimov’s Fundamental Rules of Robotics, “the three rules that are built most deeply into a robot’s positronic brain.”
1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
《心智探奇》的笔记-第577页
在策略競爭當中，擁有較高的能力不但有可能會成為拖累競爭者的一個因素，擁有較多的通訊也有可能會成為另一項不利競爭的因素。
《心智探奇》的笔记-第30页
…questions such as apartheid, the death penalty, and working mothers.
《心智探奇》的笔记-第589页
你要怎麼樣才能確定一個可能成為你伴侶的人不會在理智告訴他應該拋棄你的那一刻——譬如說隔壁搬進來了一個完美先生/小姐時——就真的會棄你於不顧呢？一個可能的答案，是當初就不要接受一個會因為理性上的原因才接受你的伴侶。
《心智探奇》的笔记-第26页
Man's capacity for evil is never far from our minds, and it is easy to think that evil just comes along with intelligence as part of its very essence. It is a recurring theme in our cultural tradition: Adam and Eve eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge, Promethean fire and Pandora's box, the rampaging Golem, Faust's bargain, the Sorcerer's Apprentice, the adventures of Pinocchio, Frankenstein's monster, the murderous apes and mutinous HAL of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
《心智探奇》的笔记-第258页
社會性的動物總是須要承擔著被偷竊、被互相殘食、配偶通姦、嬰孩被殘殺、被勒索以及其他種種為同類所背叛的風險。李錫錕“如果你家父慈子孝兄友弟恭邻居称赞 我替你捏把冷汗啊 你就快变成白痴了”难怪唐尧慧眼识虞舜
《心智探奇》的笔记-第81页
智能就是一種藉著運用合乎理性（與事實相符）規則的決策，在面臨障礙的情況下達成目標的能力。
《心智探奇》的笔记-第14页
When Hamlet says, “What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable!”
All of human psychology is said to be explained by a singer, omnipotent cause: a large brain, culture, language, socialization, learning, complexity, self-orgnization, neural-network dynamics.
《心智探奇》的笔记-第572页
每一隻生活在同一蟻群殖民地裡的螞蟻，在彼此之間都擁有極為緊密的關係，而每一隻螞蟻所表現出的舉止更是無私奉獻行為的典型。這就是為什麼螞蟻是少數幾種會發動戰爭和使用奴隸的動物。在歷史上，當人類領袖成功地操縱了人們或是強制他們將個人的利益放在群體利益之下時，其結果往往是最悲慘的人類暴行。恰好读到，也算应时
《心智探奇》的笔记-第31页 - Reverse-engineering The Psyche
Its key idea can be captured in a sentence: The mind is a system of organs of computation, designed by natural selection to solve the kinds of problems our ancestors faced in their foraging way of life, in particular, understanding and outmaneuvering objects, animals, plants, and other people.
《心智探奇》的笔记-第22页 - The Robert Challenge
“A common man marvels at uncommon things; a wise man marvels at the commonplace.” Keeping Confucius’ dictum in mind, let’s continue to look at commonplace human acts with the fresh eye of a robot designer seeking to duplicate them.
《心智探奇》的笔记-第716页
一個人若是表現出帶有侵略性的對抗態度，就等於是在宣告他對自己的地位和能力是如此地有信心，以至於他可以任意破壞其他人對他表現出的好意，而不怕自己會落得被群體放逐或是遺棄的命運。這就好像是在說：『我是如此地有才能、如此地富有、如此地受歡迎和關係雄厚，以至於我甘願擔負冒犯你的風險。』
《心智探奇》的笔记-第28页
The mind is never so wonderfully concentrated as when it turns to love, and there must be intricate calculations that carry out the peculiar logic of attraction, infatuation, courtship, coyness, surrender, commitment, malaise, philandering, jealousy, desertion, and heartbreak.
《心智探奇》的笔记-第222页
天擇並沒有像是人類工程師所擁有的前瞻能力，但是這可能反而是一種好處：天擇不會像人一樣地遭遇到思考的障礙、只有貧瘠的想像力、會屈從中產階級的知性，以及奉承統治階層利益的種種問題。