Author |
Brockman, John, 1941-
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Subject |
Scientists -- Interviews.
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Intellectuals -- Interviews.
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Science and the humanities.
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Description |
413 pages ; 25 cm |
Bibliography Note |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [389]-397) and index. |
Contents |
A package of information / George C. Williams -- The pattern of life's history / Stephen Jay Gould -- A survival machine / Richard Dawkins -- Biology is just a dance / Brian Goodwin -- Why is there so much genetic diversity? / Steve Jones -- A battle of words / Niles Eldredge -- Gaia is a tough bitch / Lynn Margulis -- Smart machines / Marvin Minsky -- Information is surprises / Roger Schank -- Intuition pumps / Daniel C. Dennett -- The thick moment / Nicholas Humphrey -- The emergent self / Francisco Varela -- Language is a human instinct / Steven Pinker -- |
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Consciousness involves noncomputable ingredients / Roger Penrose -- An ensemble of universes / Martin Rees -- A universe in your backyard / Alan Guth -- A theory of the whole universe / Lee Smolin -- The synthetic path / Paul Davies -- Plectices / Murray Gell-Mann -- Order for free / Stuart Kauffman -- A dynamical pattern / Christopher G. Langton -- The second law of organization / J. Doyne Farmer -- Close to the singularity / W. Daniel Hillis. |
ISBN |
0684803593 : $27.50 ($37.00 Can.) |
OCLC # |
31901447 |
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