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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams Stephen Fry (narrator) |
今年是第一期的广播剧开播40周年，最近还听了一个纪念DNA的三小时广播节目（里面还包含了Douglas Adams和John Lloyd一起制作的广播剧《Black Cinderella Two Goes East》，也是40年前的作品，把我给笑死了）。又一次燃起了/让我回想起了对DNA的喜爱，于是决定用每天的通勤时间再把H2G2的有声书听一遍。也没必要一篇篇写对整本书的感想，我打算就简单记录一下我印象比较深的DNA的一个个特别有意思又很智慧的小点子。
- 地球毁灭之前，Ford要带Arthur去酒馆喝酒吃花生，但是Arthur为了自己的房子不被强拆，硬生生地躺在推土机的前面。然后Ford用各种歪理说服拆迁队工头代替Arthur躺在推土机前。
躺在推土机前这个行为太疯狂了、不合理、也不合算，但是如果是让另一个人躺，那个躺的人本身只是为了另一个原因（比如金钱或者被说服或者被忽悠）反而合理化了，要求别人躺的人通过语言或金钱雇佣，也合理化了，整件事情从不合理变成合理了。太神奇了。同理，推土机的员工本身也不为“为了要造高速而拆迁”这件也不一定那么合理的事情负责。
- Babel fish and the non-existence of God
Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that something so mind-bogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as a final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.
The argument goes something like this: ‘I refuse to prove that I exist,’ says God, ‘for proof denies faith, and without faith, I am nothing.’ ‘But, says Man, the Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn’t it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and, by your own arguments, you don’t. QED.’ ‘Oh dear,’ says God, ‘I hadn’t thought of that,’ and vanishes in a puff of logic. ‘Oh, that was easy,’ says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.
这逻辑，太厉害了！