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What Have You Changed Your Mind About?: Today's Leading Minds Rethink Everything

By (author) John Brockman

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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.

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Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Published date | 2 Jun 2016
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 416
Dimensions | 203 x 135 x 24mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 311g
ISBN | 978-0-0616-8654-2
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BISAC | science / essays


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