Even geniuses change their minds sometimes.
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.
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.