information overload

 对这个题目有了更深的理解。此记。

“Contemporary technology makes available many small pieces of factual information. As a result, people have become so preoccupied with bits of fragmented information that they pay too little attention to the larger issues and overall perspectives.”
现代技术使得许多事实信息碎片留存。这导致了人们对这些信息碎片先入为主,而几乎不关心更大的问题和事物的全局。

事实信息碎片具体指什么?举例。
  fragmented information perpaps means a small fraction of isolated infromation that such as a new survey identifying

现代技术是信息碎片大量留存的真正原因吗?是,为什么会发生这种情况?举例说明;否,真正的或其他的原因是什么?举例。
 modern technology to a large extent contributes to the remaining of fragmented info. this is partly due to the fact
that nowadays, info can be distributed in a relatively low cost and more effecient ways. Internet is a platform through which
one can have access to tons of info, while the main force seems to be the increasing competition, commercial or political or scientific.

现代技术影响了人们对事物的理解和把握吗?否,为什么?是,通过哪些方式?举例说明。

信息碎片真的有可能会干扰人们对全局的理解吗?为什么,举例。

信息碎片在所有情况下都会影响到人对事物的理解吗?是,为什么?否,举例说明。

人们在理解事物的过程中对信息碎片先入为主,会导致哪些好的或者坏的结果?分别举例说明。

人们在理解事物的过程中更关注大问题和全局,而忽略细节,会导致哪些好的活着坏的结果?分别举例说明。

人们更容易关注信息碎片,而忽略事物的全局或是更重大的问题吗?为什么,举例说明。

从细节出发看问题,和从整体出发看问题,会让人们对事物的理解有所不同吗?为什么?举例。

如果说所有人的认识都局限于自己的某个层面,那么哪些人会支持此论题的观点?他们为什么会这样认为?
你的观点是什么?为什么?

the black swan

–站在那怕再无聊的书架前,也能发现一本好书。

我就是这么发现the black swan 的,虽然之前听过,却没能招来看。
翻看一章,虽然翻译的比较差劲,还是能透过文字感受到作者的一点思想:对随机现象的理

解和领会是我们看世界的一个新视角,一个很重要却常常被忽略的视角(可能和大脑的设计

和机理有关吧,比如倾向于理解那些能理解的,忘记那些不能领会的)。

其中很多思想可以借鉴:
1:fact and trend
2:多做尝试,少做计划;
。。。。。

一定找原版书来看看。

the brain that changes itself note1

The first chapter depicts one who suffered from a balance system and felt that she was falling, because of deficits of her brain resulting from overdose of some drugs. Then doctor used a treatment in which a device was installed on her tongue, sending signal to the brain to coordinate her response to external action. After a long time of training, a new channel is built up to replace the damaged part and she recovered. It is a convincing case which demonstrates that on the contrary of former ideas which held that the brain is developed and then fixed, it can be rewired,(I paraphrase) -just like the cell can be activated, so does the brain.

An even more example comes from the doctor’s father(DF), who had a stroke and then lost basic ability to speak, walk and even crawl. In a similarly way, DF is trained with great patience and extraordinary ideas, then he regains it. After about 7 years, DF had a heart disease and pass away when he was climbing a mountain. The research of his brain shows that his brain had serious damages, indicating that the brain changed itself to form a new path to deal with the nervous reaction.

Chapter two is about a girl named Barbara who had problem in logic, reasoning and reading. For example, she cannot read the clock, distinguish the difference between A’s B and B’s A. But she can write well. She made a lot of effort to enter college. After reading a case of a Soviet soldier who had a bullet in his brain but survived it, and developed a similar symptom as Barbara, she gave up the traditional therapy and attempted to develop a cure, finally she healed herself.

According to the research and experience of author, somewhat brain disability seems ordinary among all of us, only with different level.

An alarming conclusion is that the curriculum of rote memorization of long poems helps building a strengthened brain function of memory and thinking in languages. However, these curriculums were dropped by the educators since 1960s, who claimed that it was boring and helpless. As a result, many students lost the only opportunity to exercise the brains systematically. Moreover, according to the author, this change also contributes to the decrease of eloquent people. (it occurs to me that we should do a research about Mr Obama’s education). And people’s rely on PPT can be interpreted as a compensation of a weak pre-motor cortex.

These discovery remind me that maybe some of my peers in elementary school who had a poor score suffer from certain brain problems, which, if identified, can be treated with much less efforts.
To be continued