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What Have You Changed Your Mind About?

Today's Leading Minds Rethink Everything

by John Brockman

Published:
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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