The publisher of the online science salon Edge.org, John Brockman is the editor of Know This, This Idea Must Die, This Explains Everything, This Will Make You Smarter, and other volumes.
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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