What Is Your Dangerous Idea?: Today's Leading Thinkers on the UnthinkableHarper Collins, 13 oct. 2009 - 336 pages The world's leading scientific thinkers explore bold, remarkable, perilous ideas that could change our lives—for better . . . or for worse . . . From Copernicus to Darwin, to current-day thinkers, scientists have always promoted theories and unveiled discoveries that challenge everything society holds dear; ideas with both positive and dire consequences. Many thoughts that resonate today are dangerous not because they are assumed to be false, but because they might turn out to be true. What do the world's leading scientists and thinkers consider to be their most dangerous idea? Through the leading online forum Edge (www.edge.org), the call went out, and this compelling and easily digestible volume collects the answers. From using medication to permanently alter our personalities to contemplating a universe in which we are utterly alone, to the idea that the universe might be fundamentally inexplicable, What Is Your Dangerous Idea? takes an unflinching look at the daring, breathtaking, sometimes terrifying thoughts that could forever alter our world and the way we live in it. Contributors include |
Table des matières
We Have No Souls | |
David Buss | |
Groups of People May Differ Genetically in Their Average Talents | |
Marionettes on Genetic Strings | |
Being Alone in the Universe | |
We Are Entirely Alone | |
The Idea That We Understand Plutonium | |
A Grand Narrative | |
Bertrand Russells Dangerous Idea | |
We Will Understand the Origin of Life Within the Next Five Years | |
Marco Iacoboni | |
Brains Cannot Become Minds Without Bodies | |
More Anonymity Is Good | |
Using Medications to Change Personality | |
Choosing the Sex of Ones Child | |
The Fight Against Global Warming Is Lost | |
Our Planet Is Not in Peril | |
The Human Brain Will Never Understand the Universe | |
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