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Contents
PREFACE
The Edge Question
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
by Steven Pinker
John Horgan
We Have No Souls
Paul Bloom
The Rejection of Soul
David Buss
The Evolution of Evil
Irene Pepperberg
The Differences Between Humans and Nonhumans Are Quantitative, Not Qualitative
Steven Pinker
Groups of People May Differ Genetically in Their Average Talents and Temperaments
J. Craig Venter
The Genetic Basis of Human Behavior
Jerry Coyne
Marionettes on Genetic Strings
V. S. Ramachandran
Francis Crick’s Dangerous Idea
Rodney Brooks
Being Alone in the Universe
Scott D. Sampson
Life as an Agent of Energy Dispersal
Keith Devlin
We Are Entirely Alone
Martin Rees
Science May Be Running Out of Control
Frank J. Tipler
Why I Hope the Standard Model Is Wrong About Why There Is More Matter Than Antimatter
Jeremy Bernstein
The Idea That We Understand Plutonium
W. Daniel Hillis
The Idea That We Should All Share Our Most Dangerous Ideas
Daniel Gilbert
The Idea That Ideas Can Be Dangerous
Paul C. W. Davies
The Fight Against Global Warming Is Lost
Gregory Be...
Table of contents
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- John Horgan
- Paul Bloom
- David Buss
- Irene Pepperberg
- Steven Pinker
- J. Craig Venter
- Jerry Coyne
- V. S. Ramachandran
- Rodney Brooks
- Scott D. Sampson
- Keith Devlin
- Martin Rees
- Frank J. Tipler
- Jeremy Bernstein
- W. Daniel Hillis
- Daniel Gilbert
- Paul C. W. Davies
- Gregory Benford
- Oliver Morton
- April Gornik
- Denis Dutton
- Marc D. Hauser
- Nicholas Humphrey
- David Pizarro
- Robert Shapiro
- George Dyson
- Marco Iacoboni
- Daniel Goleman
- Alun Anderson
- David Gelernter
- Kevin Kelly
- Paul W. Ewald
- Samuel Barondes
- Helen Fisher
- David G. Myers
- Diane F. Halpern
- Seth Lloyd
- Karl Sabbagh
- Lawrence M. Krauss
- Leonard Susskind
- Lee Smolin
- Brian Greene
- Carlo Rovelli
- Paul Steinhardt
- Piet Hut
- Marcelo Gleiser
- Steven Strogatz
- Terrence Sejnowski
- Neil Gershenfeld
- Rudy Rucker
- Thomas Metzinger
- Philip W. Anderson
- Sam Harris
- John Allen Paulos
- Carolyn C. Porco
- Jordan Pollack
- Robert R. Provine
- Stephen M. Kosslyn
- Jesse Bering
- Scott Atran
- Todd E. Feinberg
- David Lykken
- Judith Rich Harris
- John Gottman
- Alison Gopnik
- Stewart Brand
- Jared Diamond
- Charles Seife
- Susan Blackmore
- Daniel C. Dennett
- Randolph M. Nesse
- Kai Krause
- Rupert Sheldrake
- Simon Baron-Cohen
- Tor Norretranders
- Gregory Cochran
- Donald D. Hoffman
- Gerald Holton
- Ray Kurzweil
- Freeman J. Dyson
- Philip Campbell
- Joel Garreau
- Eric Fischl
- Michael Shermer
- Matt Ridley
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- Arnold Trehub
- Roger C. Schank
- Clifford Pickover
- Geoffrey Miller
- Sherry Turkle
- Dan Sperber
- Timothy Taylor
- Eric R. Kandel
- Clay Shirky
- Mahzarin R. Banaji
- Barry C. Smith
- Richard E. Nisbett
- Andy Clark
- Philip G. Zimbardo
- Douglas Rushkoff
- David Bodanis
- Juan Enriquez
- Haim Harari
- James O'Donnell
- Howard Gardner
- Ernst Poppel
- Leo M. Chalupa
- Afterword
- About the Author
- Books By John Brockman
- Copyright
- About the Publisher