What Have You Changed Your Mind About? - Today's Leading Minds Rethink Everything - E-book - ePub

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 .