Abstract

The Reality Club is an informal group of adventurous intellectuals whose by-invitation-only membership roster reads like a Who's Who of American arts, science, politics, and business—Neurophysiologist William H. Calvin, social critic Morris Berman, biologist Lynn Margulis, philosopher Daniel C. Dennett. Theirs are the cutting-edge minds of our time, whose ideas are creating the reality of tomorrow. The Reality Club has been meeting once or twice a month, in private sessions in New York City, since 1981. Now it's going public in a series of thematic books, of which SPECULATIONS—thirteen provocative essays on the subject of The Human Mind—is the first volume. It is required reading for anyone who appreciates the life of the mind, the unflinching search for truth, and reading for sheer intellectual pleasure.