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Index
Dedication Contents 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 About the Author Also by John Brockman Back Ads Credits Copyright About the Publisher
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