What have you changed your mind about? : today's leading minds rethink everything / edited by John Brockman ; with an introduction by Brian Eno.
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TextPublication details: New York, NY : Harper Perennial, c2009.Edition: 1st edDescription: xxvii, 387 p. ; 21 cmISBN: - 0061686549 :
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- Edge.org presents what have you changed your mind about? [Cover title]
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Even geniuses change their minds sometimes.
Edge (www.edge.org), the influential online intellectual salon, recently asked 150 high-powered thinkers to discuss their most telling missteps and reconsiderations: What have you changed your mind about? The answers are brilliant, eye-opening, fascinating, sometimes shocking, and certain to kick-start countless passionate debates.
Steven Pinker on the future of human evolution * Richard Dawkins on the mysteries of courtship * SAM HARRIS on the indifference of Mother Nature * Nassim Nicholas Taleb on the irrelevance of probability * Chris Anderson on the reality of global warming * Alan Alda on the existence of God * Ray Kurzweil on the possibility of extraterrestrial life * Brian Eno on what it means to be a "revolutionary" * Helen Fisher on love, fidelity, and the viability of marriage * Irene Pepperberg on learning from parrots . . . and many others.
150 high-powered thinkers discuss their most telling missteps and reconsiderations.