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What Have You Changed Your Mind About? by John Brockman

What Have You Changed Your Mind About?

Today's Leading Minds Rethink Everything

by John Brockman

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  • Jan 2009, 416 pages
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Paperback Original.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 were brilliant, eye-opening, fascinating, sometimes shocking, and certain to kick-start countless passionate debates.

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  • 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

  • Lisa Randall on the secrets of the Sun

  • 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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"[A] thought-provoking collection of focused and tightly argued pieces demonstrating the courage to change strongly held convictions." - Publishers Weekly

"There's some chaff here, but also plenty of insights for the scientifically curious." - Kirkus Reviews

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