What Have You Changed Your Mind About?: Today's Leading Minds Rethink Everything

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.

• Author
• John Brockman, Brian Eno

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 387

• Series
• Edge Question

• Publisher
• Harper Perennial

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 978-0-06-168654-2

• EAN
• 9780061686542

• Genres
• science, psychology, essays, philosophy, unfinished, politics

• Release date
• 2014