Yuval Noah Harariの "21 Lessons for the 21st Century" を読んでいます。
2nd LessonのWorkから引用します。
In the last few decades research in areas such as neuroscience and behavioural economics allowed scientists to hack humans, and in particular to gain a much better understanding of how humans make decisions. It turned out that our choices of everything from food to mates result not from some mysterious free will, but rather from billions of neurons calculating probabilities within a split second. Vaunted 'human intuition' is in reality 'pattern recognition'.
"Vaunted" の意味が分からないので辞書を見ます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: proudly talked about or praised as being very good, especially when this is not deserved: Their much vaunted reforms did not materialize.
・Collins Dictionary: If you describe something as vaunted or much vaunted, you mean that people praise it more than it deserves.: Its vaunted security procedures hadn't worked.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: praised often in a way that is considered to be more than acceptable or reasonable: His (much) vaunted new plan has been shown to have serious weaknesses.
2nd LessonのWorkから引用します。
In the last few decades research in areas such as neuroscience and behavioural economics allowed scientists to hack humans, and in particular to gain a much better understanding of how humans make decisions. It turned out that our choices of everything from food to mates result not from some mysterious free will, but rather from billions of neurons calculating probabilities within a split second. Vaunted 'human intuition' is in reality 'pattern recognition'.
"Vaunted" の意味が分からないので辞書を見ます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: proudly talked about or praised as being very good, especially when this is not deserved: Their much vaunted reforms did not materialize.
・Collins Dictionary: If you describe something as vaunted or much vaunted, you mean that people praise it more than it deserves.: Its vaunted security procedures hadn't worked.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: praised often in a way that is considered to be more than acceptable or reasonable: His (much) vaunted new plan has been shown to have serious weaknesses.
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