What Have You Changed Your Mind About?

<p>Even geniuses change their minds sometimes.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p>