關鍵詞:卡普拉,生命的系統觀,第四次工業革命
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the East-West Dialogues.
我是今天的主播小V,
我要和大家今天分享的文章是
《邂逅卡普拉(上)|
MEETING A GURU – SYSTEMS THINKER FRITJOF CAPRA》
卡普拉,在80年代寫了一本非常著名的書
《物理學之道-The Dao of Phycis》
這是西方人第一次把近代物理學和東方神秘主義進行深入對比,尤其是東方道家的陰陽哲學思想。讓很多人西方人慕名學道,所以這本書才叫《物理學之道》。
而這篇文章《邂逅量子力學家卡普拉(上)》是以採訪的方式進行的,
採訪者是英國新興未來智庫(Emerging Future Institute)的創始人,
未來學家Benjamin Bulter (班傑明·巴特爾).
讓我們一起來聽聽量子力學家和未來學家的對話吧。
So let's meet the gurus.
費傑夫·卡普拉(量子力學家)
班傑明·巴特爾 (未來學家)
生命的系統觀
the Systems View of Life
詞彙表一:
futurist: 未來學家
in the midst :在中間
at the edge 邊緣的
massive change:巨大的改變
revolutionary :革命性的
Benjamin Bulter (the Futurist ):
In your own field of expertise, does it feel like we are in the midst or at the edge of massive change that is perhaps revolutionary? And why?
班傑明·巴特爾(未來學家):
在你的專業領域,是否感受到我們現在正處於巨大變化之中,此變化將是革命性的?為什麼?
詞彙表二:
quantum phyicist:量子力學家
expertise:專業知識
systems and complexity science : 系統論和複雜性科學
systems view of life:生命的系統觀
biological:生物的
cognitive : 認知的
social :社會的
ecological : 生態的
dimension: 維度
Fritjof Capra (the Quantum Phyiscist ):
My original field of expertise was theoretical physics, but since the mid-1980s I have been working in systems and complexity science, synthesizing a new conception of life, which I call 「the systems view of life.」 My synthesis offers a coherent conceptual framework that integrates four dimensions of life: the biological, the cognitive, thesocial, and the ecological dimension.
費傑夫·卡普拉(量子力學家):
我原來的專業領域是理論物理,自從1980年代以後,我就一直研究「系統論與複雜性科學(systems and complexity science)」,整合一種新的人生觀,我稱之為「生命的系統觀(the systems view of life)」。我的整合提供了一個全局的概念框架,集成了生命的四個維度:
生理的(the biological)、
感知的(the cognitive)、
社會的(the social)、
和生態維度(the ecological dimension)。
詞彙表三
revotionary advance:革命性的進步
at its core :在其核心
methaphors: 比喻
network: 網絡
mechanistic worldview: 機械的世界觀
paradigm: 範式的
Fritjof Capra (the Quantum Phyiscist ):
The systems view of life is a revolutionary advance. At its core lies a profound change of metaphors, from seeing the world as a machine to understanding it as a network. At present, the mechanistic worldview still dominates many fields (e.g. medicine, management, economics, and most of politics), but we are well into the change of paradigms (farther than 「at the edge」 but not yet 「in the midst」), especially in the minds of young people and of high-tech professionals who are used to dealing with networks in their everyday professional and personal lives.
費傑夫·卡普拉(量子力學家):
生命的系統觀(the systems view of life)是一個革命性的進步。它的核心是一個深刻隱喻般的變化,從把世界看成一臺機器,到認知它為一個網絡。目前,機械論的世界觀仍在許多領域佔主導地位,(如醫學、管理、經濟、和大多數政治),但我們也正在深入範式的變化中(比「邊緣」更深,但還沒完全深入到「核心」),尤其是在年輕人和高科技專業人士的思維裡,他們已經習慣在日常工作和生活中處理各種網絡。
第四次工業革命
the Fourth Industrial Revolution
詞彙表四
advocate:提倡
industrial revolution: 工業革命
keep track : 追蹤
Benjamin Bulter (the Futurist ):
How will the Fourth Industrial Revolution affect you and affect the planet?
班傑明·巴特爾(未來學家):
第四次工業革命將如果影響你?如何影響地球?
Fritjof Capra(the Quantum Phyiscist):
In recent years, there have been several books advocating or announcing a new Industrial Revolution and giving it a number. So, let me start by keeping track of these new Industrial Revolutions. One of the first to use this language was Jeremy Rifkin about 10 years ago.
費傑夫·卡普拉(量子力學家):
近年來,有好幾本著名的書,提倡或宣布一個新的工業革命,也對此給出了具體的數字。因此,首先讓我追蹤這些新的工業革命。10年前,傑裡米·裡夫金(Jeremy Rifkin)是第一個使用這種語言的。
詞彙表五
convergence:聚合
steam power: 蒸汽動力
the First Insdustrial Revolution: 第一次工業革命
the Second Insdustrial Revolution: 第二次工業革命
the Third Insdustrial Revolution: 第二次工業革命
petroleum: 石油
democratization :民主化
usher in:引進
hierachies: 層級化
centralized: 集中式
distributed: 分布式
collaborative : 合作的
Rifkin argues that throughout human history great economic revolutions occurred when new communication technologies converged with new energy systems. In the nineteenth century, the convergence of steam power and print technology created the 「the First Industrial Revolution」 In the twentieth century, petroleum as the main energy source converged with electronic communications to create the 「the Second Industrial Revolution」 . Rifkin’s vision for the 「 the Third Industrial Revolution」 is the convergence of renewable energies with Internet communication to usher in a democratization of energy and a fundamental reordering of human relationships in a transition from hierarchies to networks, from centralized to distributed and collaborative power.
裡夫金認為,在整個人類歷史上,偉大的經濟革命發生在,當新的通信技術融合了新能源系統。在十九世紀,蒸汽動力印刷技術的融合創造了「第一次工業革命(First Industrial Revolution)」。在二十世紀,石油作為主要的能源來源,與電子通信的融合創造了「第二次工業革命(Second Industrial Revolution)」。裡夫金對「第三次工業革命(ThirdIndustrial Revolution)」的願景是,可再生能源與網際網路通信的融合,開闢了能源的民主化,從根本上,人類關係的重新排序,從層級化(hierarchies)到網絡化(networks),從集中式(centralized)向分布式(distributed),以及協作的力 (collaborative power)。
詞彙表五
count... differently: 對...不同觀點
electricity : 電力
electronics: 電子
digital revolution : 數字革命
the Fouth Industrial Revolution : 第四次工業革命
sustainability: 可持續發展
aggravate:加重
unsustainable practice: 不可持續的做法
sustainable future : 可持續的未來
Charles Schwab counts the Industrial Revolutions slightly differently, separating thespread of electricity (The Second Industrial Revolution) and electronics (Third Industrial Revolution), and he calls the digital revolution the 「 the Fourth Industrial Revolution.」 In contrast to Rifkin, Schwab does not seem to be concerned with energy and sustainability but merely with digital technologies. In my view, such a revolution would lead to disaster, as it would aggravate the unsustainable practices we see today. If combined with sustainable energy production, agriculture, architecture, andbusiness practices, on the other hand (as Rifkin, Amory Lovins, Lester Brown,and others suggest), the digital revolution can be an important part of building a sustainable future.
查爾斯·施瓦布(嘉信理財創始人)對工業革命的計算稍有不同,把電的傳播(第二次工業革命-The Second Industrial Revolution)和電子的傳播(第三次工業革命-Third Industrial Revolution)分開,於是他把數位化革命稱為「第四次工業革命(the Fouth Industrial Revolution) 」。與裡夫金的論點相反,施瓦布似乎並不關心能源和可持續發展,只是看重數位技術。在我看來,這樣的一場革命將導致災難,因為它只會加劇更多不可持續發展的做法,就如我們今天所看到的。但如果與之結合的是可持續能源生產,農業、建築業和商業實踐,另一方面如裡夫金(Jeremy Rifkin),艾莫裡·洛文斯(洛基山研究所創始人,首席科學家 Amory Lovins),萊斯特·布朗(世界觀察研究所創始人Lester Brown),或其他人建議的,數字革命也可以建設為一個可持續未來的重要組成部分。
If you would like to learn more about Fritjof Capra, then please go to his site.
(如果您希望了解卡普拉的更多著作,請登錄他的個人網站)
www.fritjofcapra.net
Also consider signing up for his online course, the Capra Course.
(以及參加他的在線課程「卡普拉課程」)
http://www.capracourse.net/
If you would like to learn more about Benjamin Bulter and futurism of global financial market trend, then please go to the Emerging Future Institute website.
(如果您希望了解班傑明和他對金融市場的未來趨勢預測,請登錄"新興未來智庫"網站)
http://emergingfuture.com/about/
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