epub | 725.97 KB | English | Isbn: 978-0062374349 | Author: John Brockman | Year: 2015
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The bestselling editor of This Explains Everything brings together 175 of the world's most brilliant minds to tackle Edge.org's 2014 question: What scientific idea has become a relic blocking human progress?
Each year, John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org-"The world's smartest website" ( The Guardian )-challenges some of the world's greatest scientists, artists, and philosophers to answer a provocative question crucial to our time. In 2014 he asked 175 brilliant minds to ponder: What scientific idea needs to be put aside in order to make room for new ideas to advance? The answers are as surprising as they are illuminating. In :
[*] Steven Pinker dismantles the working theory of human behavior
[*] Richard Dawkins renounces essentialism
[*] Sherry Turkle reevaluates our expectations of artificial intelligence
[*] Geoffrey West challenges the concept of a "Theory of Everything"
[*] Andrei Linde suggests that our universe and its laws may not be as unique as we think
[*] Martin Rees explains why scientific understanding is a limitless goal
[*] Nina Jablonski argues to rid ourselves of the concept of race
[*] Alan Guth rethinks the origins of the universe
[*] Hans Ulrich Obrist warns against glorifying unlimited economic growth
[*] and much more.
Profound, engaging, thoughtful, and groundbreaking, This Idea Must Die will change your perceptions and understanding of our world today . . . and tomorrow.
Category:Philosophy of Logic & Language, Science Essays & Commentary, Cognitive Psychology
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