Explaining Humans: Winner of the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2020

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Feedback loops, both positive and negative, are ways to use your neural networks to create desired outcomes or get rid of bad ones. Now armed with a PhD in biochemistry, Camilla dismantles our obscure social customs and identifies what it really means to be human using her unique expertise and a language she knows best: science. To disrupt our warped perception of social norms, Millie introduces us to the protein model of teamwork where unlike people, proteins recognise and respect the need for difference and in turn, we should also learn to embrace and harness our true personality rather than denying or masking it.

So far I’ve found it entertaining to look at the world this way as well as it boosting confidence in my weirdness. Dr Camilla Pang (Millie) explores the intersection between scientific principles including proteins, machine learning, and molecular chemistry with human behaviour to provide an essential and enlightening guide to understanding the world around us. This isn't a book about understanding human behaviour really, if you want to learn about humans this isn't the best thing to read. I am not particularly entertained by someone listing in great detail all of their trivial neuroses, and then using incredibly forced analogies to tell me why I shouldn’t let myself suffer from those same neuroses.And so my own criticisms and prescriptions come in part from my own experience trying to situate myself in neurotypical settings. I think my biggest issue with this book, and why it was so disappointing, is that it just felt marketed wrong.

Când două personalități umane reușesc să conlucreze într-un mod care le ajută să se ridice la un nivel la care nu ar fi ajuns niciodată singure, înseamnă că au aceeași „frecvență de rezonanță”. From her unique perspective, the author talks about how the world of math and science has given her models to help interact with the messy world of humans, most of whom she has a hard time understanding with their complex emotional behaviors. If I didn’t feel a need for such explanation I could perhaps overlook this mismatch but I was really hoping the author could provide me with one. But this one was SO cringy, SO “I’m super special and so different than everyone else and so misunderstood”, that I just couldn’t. This is a good model of how to deal with anxiety- make yourself a prism and separate the different components of anxiety to make it more manageable and understandable.Probability and estimates are a better way to navigate uncertain human relationships rather than making assumptions at the beginning. The world of science is full of theories, algorithms, and logical explanations, while the world of people is chaotic, full of unwritten rules, and always changing. I decided to DNF at the halfway point where Dr Pang starts talking about mood as an oscillation between euphoria and despair (fair, but exaggerated), introduces the concept of constructive and destructive interference, then states that people “who destructively interfere are those who sap your energy and joy, neutralizing it on impact with their negativity”.

but, apart from that it's an excellently, written book with quite funny parts as she has a giggle at herself. Protein molecules are complex and diversified substances that cooperate with each other in many ways to create life.She even admonishes the reader "to admit that your computer thinks outside the box more readily than you do. While gripped with Camilla's daily struggles and her excellent approach to humans I was a bit shocked to find that I had done some of the things she did.

Acești oameni devin „parteneri într-ale armoniei”, adică undele lor sunt suficient de asemănătoare încât să le permită să se completeze reciproc, depășind cu eleganță eventualele diferențe și explorând împreună ceea ce îi unește. No matter, if you are a neurotypical person, neuro-divergent person you will thoroughly enjoy reading this book where you will learn how to better oneself through applying fundamental concepts from mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, and computer science.

A short book by a biochemist who proudly flies the flag of her own autism diagnosis, explaining how people work from her point of view. Manche Szenen kamen mir persönlich nur allzu bekannt vor, und viele ihrer Schlussfolgerungen lebe ich ebenfalls aus.