Abstract

Even geniuses change their minds sometimes. Edge, 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 were brilliant, eye-opening, fascinating, sometimes shocking, and certain to kick-start countless passionate debates. Read 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; Lisa Randall on the secrets of the Sun; 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.