“The believing brian”阅读笔记（1）

人在饥饿时，看到远处的某些东西往往觉得像食物；而当吃饱了，再看到同样的东西就不会有那种感觉。这说明人的感知受到欲望的强烈影响。

“The believing brain” 这本书深入讨论了人类的大脑是如何接受信息、构建模型并应用这个模型的。

读书越多，我越发现人类其实和动物非常相似，只不过大多数人高估了自己的智商。这并非贬低，而是现实：由于智慧不足，很多人甚至不如动物。一旦人类陷入愚蠢，所犯的错误远比动物严重得多。

动物世界讲究优胜劣汰、适者生存，而人类却常常沉迷于各种“主义”：比如单身主义、共产主义、麦肯锡主义、消费主义……这些主义有时候不是在提升人类，而是在消解人的本能和理性，最终让人变得失去自然属性。

When people are hungry, they often mistake certain distant objects for food; but once they are full, they no longer have that impression when looking at the same things. This shows that human perception is strongly influenced by desire.

The book The Believing Brain explores in depth how the human brain receives information, constructs models, and applies those models.

The more I read, the more I realize that humans are actually very similar to animals—only that most people overestimate their intelligence. This is not an insult, but a fact: due to limited intelligence, many people are even less capable than animals. Once humans fall into stupidity, the mistakes they make are far more severe than those of animals.

In the animal kingdom, survival of the fittest and natural selection prevail. In contrast, humans often indulge in various “-isms”: such as celibacy, communism, McKinseyism, consumerism… These ideologies sometimes do not elevate humanity but instead erode our instincts and rationality, ultimately stripping us of our natural essence.