* Correspondence: itai.yanai@ nyulangone.org; martin.lercher@ hhu.de Institute for Computational Medicine, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY 10016, USA Institute for Computer Science & Department of Biology, Heinrich Heine University, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany “If we allow ourselves the license of talking about genes as if they had conscious aims, always reassuring ourselves that we could translate our sloppy language back into respectable terms if we wanted to, we can ask the question, what is a single selfish gene trying to do?”—Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene: p. 88 “I’ve made agents out of system 1 and system 2 because everybody finds it easier to think about agents – with propensities and traits – than about abstract categories. Agents make powerful subjects because they’re active and they do things.”—Daniel Kahneman, personal communication

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科学的两种语言

* 通讯：itai.yanai@nyulangone.org；martin.lercher@hhu.de 计算医学研究所，纽约大学 Langone Health，纽约，NY 10016，美国计算机科学与生物系，海因里希海涅大学，40225 杜塞尔多夫，德国基因好像它们有意识的目标，总是让自己放心，如果我们愿意，我们可以将我们草率的语言翻译回体面的术语，我们可以问一个问题，一个自私的基因试图做什么？”——理查德·道金斯，自私基因：p。88 “我从系统 1 和系统 2 中创建了代理，因为每个人都发现考虑具有倾向和特征的代理比考虑抽象类别更容易。特工是很有力量的主题，因为他们很活跃，他们会做事。”——丹尼尔·卡尼曼，