Sumerians
LỜI NÓI ĐẦU Năm 1956, cuốn sách "From the Tablets of Sumer" của tôi được xuất bản, được sửa đổi, in lại và dịch ra nhiều ngôn ngữ dưới tên "History Begins at Sumer". Nó bao gồm hai mươi ba bài tiểu luận riêng biệt được thống nhất bởi một chủ đề chung—"những điều đầu tiên" trong lịch sử và văn hóa được ghi chép của loài người. Cuốn sách không đề cập đến lịch sử chính trị của người Sumer hay bản chất của các thể chế xã hội và kinh tế của họ, cũng không cung cấp cho độc giả bất kỳ ý tưởng nào về...
Sumerians
LỜI NÓI ĐẦU Năm 1956, cuốn sách "From the Tablets of Sumer" của tôi được xuất bản, được sửa đổi, in lại và dịch ra nhiều ngôn ngữ dưới tên "History Begins at Sumer". Nó bao gồm hai mươi ba bài tiểu luận riêng biệt được thống nhất bởi một chủ đề chung—"những điều đầu tiên" trong lịch sử và văn hóa được ghi chép của loài người. Cuốn sách không đề cập đến lịch sử chính trị của người Sumer hay bản chất của các thể chế xã hội và kinh tế của họ, cũng không cung cấp cho độc giả bất kỳ ý tưởng nào về...
CHAPTER 2 : THE GREAT CONFINEMENT
**Compelle intrare.** BY a strange act of force, the classical age was to reduce to silence the madness whose voices the Renaissance had just liberated, but whose violence it had already tamed. It is common knowledge that the seventeenth century created enormous houses of confinement; it is less commonly known that more than one out of every hundred inhabitants of the city of Paris found themselves confined there, within several months. It is common knowledge that absolute power made use of l...
CHAPTER 2 : THE GREAT CONFINEMENT
**Compelle intrare.** BY a strange act of force, the classical age was to reduce to silence the madness whose voices the Renaissance had just liberated, but whose violence it had already tamed. It is common knowledge that the seventeenth century created enormous houses of confinement; it is less commonly known that more than one out of every hundred inhabitants of the city of Paris found themselves confined there, within several months. It is common knowledge that absolute power made use of l...
MADNESS AND CIVILIZATION
I "Stultifera Navis" AT the end of the Middle Ages, leprosy disappeared from the Western world. In the margins of the community, at the gates of cities, there stretched wastelands which sickness had ceased to haunt but had left sterile and long uninhabitable. For centuries, these reaches would belong to the non-human. From the fourteenth to the seventeenth century, they would wait, soliciting with strange incantations a new incarnation of disease, another grimace of terror, renewed rites of p...
MADNESS AND CIVILIZATION
I "Stultifera Navis" AT the end of the Middle Ages, leprosy disappeared from the Western world. In the margins of the community, at the gates of cities, there stretched wastelands which sickness had ceased to haunt but had left sterile and long uninhabitable. For centuries, these reaches would belong to the non-human. From the fourteenth to the seventeenth century, they would wait, soliciting with strange incantations a new incarnation of disease, another grimace of terror, renewed rites of p...
Active Inference: The Free Energy Principle in Mind, Brain, and Behavior
Preface Karl Friston Active Inference is a way of understanding sentient behavior. The very fact that you are reading these lines means that you are engaging in Active Inference-namely, actively sampling the world-in a particular way- because you believe you will learn something. You are palpating this page with your eyes simply because this is the kind of action that will resolve uncer- tainty about what you will see next and-indeed-what these words convey. In short, Active Inference puts th...
Active Inference: The Free Energy Principle in Mind, Brain, and Behavior
Preface Karl Friston Active Inference is a way of understanding sentient behavior. The very fact that you are reading these lines means that you are engaging in Active Inference-namely, actively sampling the world-in a particular way- because you believe you will learn something. You are palpating this page with your eyes simply because this is the kind of action that will resolve uncer- tainty about what you will see next and-indeed-what these words convey. In short, Active Inference puts th...
The predictive mind
Preface My work on this book was made possible through invaluable research support from the Australian Research Council and from Monash University. I am grateful to many researchers from around the world for inspiration, fruitful discussion, and generous comments. My colleagues at Monash have influenced me, worked with me, and trained me in science; thanks in particular to my co-authors Bryan Paton, Colin Palmer, and Peter Enticott, to Steve Miller and Trung Ngo for including me in many proje...
The predictive mind
Preface My work on this book was made possible through invaluable research support from the Australian Research Council and from Monash University. I am grateful to many researchers from around the world for inspiration, fruitful discussion, and generous comments. My colleagues at Monash have influenced me, worked with me, and trained me in science; thanks in particular to my co-authors Bryan Paton, Colin Palmer, and Peter Enticott, to Steve Miller and Trung Ngo for including me in many proje...
