About this title: The author of "What We Believe but Cannot Prove" returns with another iconoclastic collection in which some of the world's leading scientific thinkers discuss ideas that are perilous for their potential practical uses and philosophical implications.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
Date Published: 06/11/2006
ISBN-13:9780743295536ISBN:0743295536
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
Date Published: 06/11/2006
ISBN-13:9780743295536ISBN:0743295536
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Pocket Books
Date Published: 02/07/2007
ISBN-13:9781416526858ISBN:1416526854
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Date Published: 2007-03-01
ISBN-13:9780061214950ISBN:0061214957
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Description: Like New. 2007-Paperback-May contain minor shelf-wear. Otherwise, volume un-read and in "As-New" condition. -Used-Like New-Hall Street Books proudly ships from Brooklyn, NY. All orders are processed and shipped within 24 hours, M-F. 100% money back No-Worry guarantee with expedited delivery and delivery confirmation available. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Date Published: 3/13/2007
ISBN-13:9780061214950ISBN:0061214957
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780061214950ISBN:0061214957
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Book is canted and there is minor edge wear. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 301 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: NEW ED
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER Country = UNITED STATES
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9781416526858ISBN:1416526854
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 352 pages. The follow-up to the acclaimed what we believe but cannot prove, a collection of thought-experiments by some of the most eminent thinkers and scientists alive, including richard dawkins, jared diamond and steven pinker. edition new ed (Paperback) read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9781416526858ISBN:1416526854
Description: New. The follow-up to the acclaimed WHAT WE BELIEVE BUT CANNOT PROVE, a collection of thought-experiments by some of the most eminent thinkers and scientists alive, including Richard Dawkins, Jared Diamond and Steven Pinker. read more
"I've been dipping in and out of this collection of essays written by Today's Leading Thinkers who are, apparently, people like Daniel C Dennett, Susan Blackmore and Stephen Pinker. It's not bad, but I've heard most of these arguments before. The authors agonise over stuff like the non-existence of the soul, human inequality, eugenics, free will, consciousness, and the general pointlessnes of the universe. Actually it was quite depressing. Today's Leading Thinkers seem to do a lot of worrying and don't have a lot of answers."
"One of the more thought-provoking books I've read in a while. Includes contributions by Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Gilbert and other luminaries."
"One hundred eight writers, most of them scientists and academics, contributed to this book. There are well-known people like Steven Pinker, Richard Dawkins, Helen Fisher, and Jared Diamond and lesser-know people. As can be expected, the short essays, ranging from one to five pages each, vary in interest. But many of the essays examine fascinating ideas that may challenge our beliefs and the status quo (hence, their danger). Daniel Golman, for instance, notes the difference between having a discussion with someone in person and by e-mail. On "flaming": "The hallmark of a flame is that the same person would never say the words in the e-mail to the recipient were they face to face." Karl Sabbagh writes about the immense difficulty of humans knowing the universe: "And even if we are on the right lines in some areas, how much of what there is to be understood in the universe do we really understand? Fifty percent? Five percent? The dangerous idea is that perhaps we understand half of a percent and all the brain and computer power we can muster may take us up to one or two percent in the lifetime of the human race." On why aliens have not contacted humans despite there being billions of planets in our galaxy alone: "Basically I think aliens don't blow themselves up; they just get addicted to computer games. They forget to send radio signals or colonize space because they're too busy with runaway consumerism and virtual-reality narcissism. They don't need Sentinels to enslave them in a Matrix; they do it to themselves, just as we are doing today.""
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