SIMPLEXITY: SIMPLIFYING PRINCIPLES FOR A COMPLEX WORLD
Book ID/图书代码： 04270511B51411
English Summary/英文概要： Simplexity is the set of solutions that living organisms find so that despite complex natural processes the brain can prepare actions and project their consequences. These solutions are principles of simplification that enable an organism to deal with information and situations, while taking into account past experiences and anticipating future ones. Such solutions are not caricatures, shortcuts or summaries; they are instead new ways of addressing problems so that actions may be taken more quickly, more elegantly and more efficiently.
In a sense, the history of living organisms may be summed up by their remarkable ability to find solutions that avoid the world’s complexity by imposing on it their own rules and functions. Thus the notions of simplexity and simplicity differ fundamentally: the former includes tension, a relationship and sometimes opposition between simplicity and complexity.
In other words, in a complex world, solutions are not simple because there can be no simple solutions — they are necessarily “simplex”. Evolution has resolved the problem of complexity not by simplifying but by finding solutions whose processes — though they can sometimes be complex — allow us to act in the midst of complexity and of uncertainty. Nature can inspire us by making us realise that simplification is never simple and requires instead that we inhibit, select, relate and imagine, in order to act in the best possible manner.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在這複雜的世界裡，並不會有「簡單」的解答，只會有經過「簡化」過程的答案！ Simplexity一詞的概念是來自simplicity（簡單性）及complexity（複雜性）的結合關係。簡言之就是一個「複雜」的事件可由「簡單」的道理所組成，而簡單的問題可以發展出繁複的答案；為了簡化一些複雜的概念，然而簡化過程中卻增加了複雜度。
法國知名生理學及神經科學家Alain Berthoz在本書中將以科學的角度介紹此一概念，剖析此一概念如何在大腦的運作，以及如何從抽象的思考及想法轉換並傳達到人體複雜的生理結構，而產生實際的行為表現。(Vincent)
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About the Author/作者介绍： Alain Berthoz is professor of physiology emeritus at the College de France, where he heads the Laboratory of the Physiology of Perception and Action. He lives in Paris.
Alain Berthoz是法國大學生理學系的榮譽教授，在歐洲是專研生理知覺及行為的權威。目前已退休並定居法國巴黎。
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