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DEDICATION
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
PREFACE: THE 2014 EDGE QUESTION
The Theory of Everything
Unification
Simplicity
The Universe
IQ
Brain Plasticity
Changing the Brain
“The Rocket Scientist”
Indivi-duality
The Bigger an Animal’s Brain, the Greater Its Intelligence
The Big Bang Was the First Moment of Time
The Universe Began in a State of Extraordinarily Low Entropy
Entropy
The Uniformity and Uniqueness of the Universe
Infinity
The Laws of Physics Are Predetermined
Theories of Anything
M-theory/String Theory Is the Only Game in Town
String Theory
Our World Has Only Three Space Dimensions
The “Naturalness” Argument
The Collapse of the Wave Function
Quantum Jumps
Cause and Effect
Race
Essentialism
Human Nature
The Urvogel
Numbering Nature
Hardwired = Permanent
The Atheism Prerequisite
Evolution Is “True”
There Is No Reality in the Quantum World
Spacetime
The Universe
The Higgs Particle Closes a Chapter in Particle Physics
Aesthetic Motivation
Naturalness, Hierarchy, and Spacetime
Scientists Ought to Know Everything Scientifically Knowable
Falsifiability
Anti-anecdotalism
Science Makes Philosophy Obsolete
“Science”
Our Narrow Definition of “Science”
The Hard Problem
The Neural Correlates of Consciousness
Long-Term Memory Is Immutable
The Self
Cognitive Agency
Free Will
Common Sense
There Can Be No Science of Art
Science and Technology
Things Are Either True or False
Simple Answers
We’ll Never Hit Barriers to Scientific Understanding
Life Evolves Via a Shared Genetic Toolkit
Fully Random Mutations
One Genome per Individual
Nature Versus Nurture
The Particularist Use of “a” Gene-Environment Interaction
Natural Selection Is the Only Engine of Evolution
Behavior = Genes + Environment
Innateness
Moral Blank-Slateism
Associationism
Radical Behaviorism
“Instinct” and “Innate”
Altruism
The Altruism Hierarch
Humans Are by Nature Social Animals
Evidence-Based Medicine
Large Randomized Controlled Trials
Multiple Regression as a Means of Discovering Causality
Mouse Models
The Somatic Mutation Theory of Cancer
The Linear No-Threshold (LNT) Radiation Dose Hypothesis
Universal Grammar
A Science of Language Should Deal Only With “Competence”
Languages Condition Worldviews
The Standard Approach to Meaning
The Uncertainty Principle
Beware of Arrogance! Retire Nothing!
Big Data
The Stratigraphic Column
The Habitable-Zone Concept
Robot Companions
“Artificial Intelligence”
The Mind Is Just the Brain
Mind Versus Matter
Intelligence as a Property
The Grand Analogy
Grandmother Cells
Brain Modules
Bias Is Always Bad
Cartesian Hydraulicism
The Computational Metaphor
Left-Brain/Right-Brain
Left-Brain/Right-Brain
Moore’s Law
The Continuity of Time
The Input-Output Model of Perception and Action
Knowing Is Half the Battle
Information Overload
The Rational Individual
Homo Economicus
Don’t Discard Wrong Theories, Just Don’t Treat Them as True
Rational Actor Models: The Competence Corollary
Malthusianism
Economic Growth
Unlimited and Eternal Growth
The Tragedy of the Commons
Markets Are Bad; Markets Are Good
Stationarity
Stationarity
The Carbon Footprint
Unbridled Scientific and Technological Optimism
Scientists Should Stick to Science
Nature = Objects
Scientific Morality
Science Is Self-Correcting
Replication as a Safety Net
Scientific Knowledge Structured as “Literature”
The Way We Produce and Advance Science
Allocating Funds via Peer Review
Some Questions Are Too Hard for Young Scientists to Tackle
Only Scientists Can Do Science
The Scientific Method
Big Effects Have Big Explanations
Science = Big Science
Sadness Is Always Bad, Happiness Is Always Good
Opposites Can’t Both Be Right
People Are Sheep
Beauty Is in the Eyes of the Beholder
Romantic Love and Addiction
Emotion Is Peripheral
Science Can Maximize Our Happiness
Culture
Culture
Learning and Culture
“Our” Intuitions
We’re Stone Age Thinkers
Inclusive Fitness
Human Evolutionary Exceptionalism
Animal Mindlessness
Humaniqueness
Human Being = Homo sapiens
Anthropocentricity
Truer Perceptions Are Fitter Perceptions
The Intrinsic Beauty and Elegance of Mathematics Allows It to Describe Nature
Geometry
Calculus
Computer Science
Science Advances by Funerals
Planck’s Cynical View of Scientific Change
New Ideas Triumph by Replacing Old Ones
Max Planck’s Faith
The Illusion of Certainty
The Pursuit of Parsimony
The Clinician’s Law of Parsimony
Essentialist Views of the Mind
The Distinction Between Antisociality and Mental Illness
Repression
Mental Illness Is Nothing but Brain Illness
Psychogenic Illness
Crime Entails Only the Actions of Criminals
Statistical Significance
Scientific Inference via Statistical Rituals
The Power of Statistics
Reproducibility
The Average
Standard Deviation
Statistical Independence
Certainty. Absolute Truth. Exactitude.
The Illusion of Scientific Progress
NOTES
INDEX
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ALSO BY JOHN BROCKMAN
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