Even geniuses switch their minds sometimes.
Edge (www.edge.org), the influential on-line highbrow salon, lately requested a hundred and fifty high-powered thinkers to debate their so much telling missteps and reconsiderations: What have you ever replaced your brain approximately? The solutions have been impressive, eye-opening, interesting, occasionally surprising, and sure to kick-start numerous passionate debates.
Read Steven Pinker at the way forward for human evolution • Richard Dawkins at the mysteries of courtship • Sam Harris at the indifference of mom Nature • Nassim Nicholas Taleb at the irrelevance of chance • Chris Anderson at the fact of worldwide warming • Alan Alda at the lifestyles of God • Lisa Randall at the secrets and techniques of the sunlight • Ray Kurzweil at the danger of extraterrestrial lifestyles • Brian Eno on what it potential to be a "revolutionary" • Helen Fisher on love, constancy, and the viability of marriage • Irene Pepperberg on studying from parrots. . . and lots of others.
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