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

<p>Even geniuses change their minds sometimes.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><br><br><b>Author:</b> John Brockman<br><b>Publisher:</b> Harper Perennial<br><b>Published:</b> 05/20/2014<br><b>Pages:</b> 416<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.85lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 7.90h x 5.20w x 1.40d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780061686542<br><br><b>Review Citation(s): </b><br><i>Kirkus Reviews</i> 11/01/2008 pg. 1143<br><i>Publishers Weekly</i> 11/03/2008 pg. 53<br><i>Newsweek</i> 01/12/2009 pg. 17