What is your dangerous idea? : today's leading thinkers on the unthinkable
(2007)
Nonfiction
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PUBLISHED
New York : Harper Perennial, [2007]
©2007
©2007
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
xxxiii, 301 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN/ISSN
0061214957, 9780061214950, 0061214957 :
LANGUAGE
English
CONTENTS
We have no souls /
John Horgan -- Rejection of soul /
Paul Bloom -- Evolution of evil /
David Buss -- Differences between humans and nonhumans are quantitative, not qualitative /
Irene Pepperberg -- Groups of people may differ genetically in their average talents and temperaments /
Steven Pinker -- Genetic basis of human behavior /
J. Craig Venter -- Marionettes on genetic strings /
Jerry Coyne -- Francis Crick's dangerous idea /
V.S. Ramachandran -- Being alone in the universe /
Rodney Brooks -- Life as an agent of energy dispersal /
Scott D. Sampson -- We are entirely alone /
Keith Devlin -- Science may be running out of control /
Martin Rees -- Why I hope the standard model is wrong about why there is more matter than antimatter /
Frank J. Tipler -- Idea that we understand plutonium /
Jeremy Bernstein -- Idea that we should all share our most dangerous ideas /
W. Daniel Hillis -- Idea that ideas can be dangerous /
Daniel Gilbert -- Fight against global warming is lost /
Paul C.W. Davies -- Think outside the Kyoto box /
Gregory Benford -- Our planet is not in peril /
Oliver Morton -- Effect of art can't be controlled or anticipated /
April Gornik -- A "grand narrative" /
Denis Dutton -- Our universal moral grammar's immunity to religion /
Marc D. Hauser -- Bertrand Russell's dangerous idea /
Nicholas Humphrey -- Hodgepodge morality /
David Pizarro -- We will understand the origin of life within the next five years /
Robert Shapiro -- Understanding molecular biology without discovering the origins of life /
George Dyson -- Problem with super mirrors /
Marco Iacoboni -- Cyberdisinhibition /
Daniel Goleman -- Brains cannot become minds without bodies /
Alun Anderson -- What are people well informed about in the information age? /
David Gelernter -- More anonymity is good /
Kevin Kelly -- A new golden age of medicine /
Paul W. Ewald -- Using medications to change personality /
Samuel Barondes -- Drugs may change the patterns of human love /
Helen Fisher -- A marriage option for all /
David G. Myers -- Choosing the sex of one's child /
Diane F. Halpern -- Idea of ideas /
Seth Lloyd -- Human brain will never understand the universe /
Karl Sabbagh -- World may be fundamentally inexplicable /
Lawrence M. Krauss -- The "landscape' /
Leonard Susskind -- Seeing Darwin in the light of Einstein ;
Seeing Einstein in the light of Darwin /
Lee Smolin -- Multiverse /
Brian Greene -- What twentieth-century physics says about the world might be true /
Carlo Rovelli -- It's a matter of time /
Paul Steinhardt -- A radical re-evaluation of the character of time /
Piet Hut -- It's OK not to know everything /
Marcelo Gleiser -- End of insight /
Steven Strogatz -- When will the Internet become aware of itself? /
Terrence Sejnowski -- Democratizing access to the means of invention /
Neil Gershenfeld -- Mind is a universally distributed quality /
Rudy Rucker -- Forbidden fruit intuition /
Thomas Metzinger -- Posterior probability of any particular god is pretty small /
Philip W. Anderson -- Science must destroy religion /
Sam Harris -- Self is a conceptual chimera /
John Allen Paulos -- Greatest story every told /
Carolyn C. Porco -- Science as just another religion /
Jordan Pollack -- This is all there is /
Robert R. Provine -- A science of the divine? /
Stephen M. Kosslyn -- Science will never silence god /
Jesse Bering -- Religion is the hope that is missing in science /
Scott Atran -- Myths and fairy tales are not true /
Todd E. Feinberg -- Parental licensure /
David Lykken -- Zero parental influence /
Judith Rich Harris -- Focus on emotional intelligence /
John Gottman -- A cacophony of "controversy" /
Alison Gopnik -- Applied history /
Stewart Brand -- Tribal peoples often damage their environments and make war /
Jared Diamond -- Nothing /
Charles Seife -- Everything is pointless /
Susan Blackmore -- There aren't enough minds to house the population explosion of memes /
Daniel C. Dennett -- Unspeakable ideas /
Randolph M. Nesse -- Anty gravity : chaos theory in an all-too-practical sense /
Kai Krause -- Navigating by new scientific principles /
Rupert Sheldrake -- A political system based on empathy /
Simon Baron-Cohen -- Social relativity /
Tor Nørrtranders -- There is something new under the sun, us /
Gregory Cochran -- A spoon is like a headache /
Donald D. Hoffman -- Projection of the longevity curve /
Gerald Holton -- Near-term inevitability of radical life extension and expansion /
Ray Kurzweil -- Domestication of biotechnology /
Freeman J. Dyson -- Public engagement in science and technology /
Philip Campbell -- Suppose Faulkner was right? /
Joel Garreau -- What if the unknown becomes known and is not replaced with a new unknown? /
Eric Fischl -- Where goods cross frontiers, armies won't /
Michael Shermer -- Government is the problem, not the solution /
Matt Ridley -- Free market /
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi -- Modern science is a product of biology /
Arnold Trehub -- No more teacher's dirty looks /
Roger C. Schank -- We are all virtual /
Clifford Pickover -- Runaway consumerism explains the Fermi paradox /
Geoffrey Miller -- Simulation versus authenticity /
Sherry Turkle -- Culture is natural /
Dan Sperber -- Human brain is a cultural artifact /
Timothy Taylor -- Free will is exercised unconsciously /
Eric R. Kandel -- Free will is going away /
Clay Shirky -- Limits of introspection /
Mahzarin R. Banaji -- What we know may not change us /
Barry C. Smith -- Telling more than we can know /
Richard E. Nisbett -- Quick-thinking zombies inside us /
Andy Clark -- Banality of evil, the banality of heroism /
Philip G. Zimbardo -- Open-source currency /
Douglas Rushkoff -- Is the West already on a downhill course? /
David Bodanis -- Technology can untie the United States /
Juan Enriquez -- Democracy may be on its way out /
Haim Harari -- Marx was right : the state will evaporate /
James O'Donnell -- Following Sisyphus /
Howard Gardner -- How can I trust, in the face of so many unknowables? /
Ernst Pöppel -- A twenty-four-hour period of absolute solitude /
Leo M. Chalupa