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Intellectual Honesty Wherever we look, we find otherwise sane men and women making extraordinary efforts to avoid changing their minds. Of course, many people are reluctant to be seen changing their minds, even though they might be willing to change...

Reporting from the cutting edge of scientific discovery, today’s visionary thinkers target the greatest roadblocks to innovation.Few truly new ideas are developed without first abandoning old ones. In the past, discoveries often had to wait for the rise...

What to Think About Machines That Think: Today’s Leading Thinkers on the Age of Machine Intelligence by John Brockman Book Description – What to Think About Machines That Think: Today’s Leading Thinkers on the Age of Machine Intelligence Product Details...

“Once we had neurons. Now we’re becoming the neurons.” When Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage invented the world’s first computer, their “Analytical Engine” became the evolutionary progenitor of a new class of human extensions — machines that think....

It’s been an annual tradition since 01998: with a new year comes a new Edge question. Every January, John Brockman presents the members of his online salon with a question that elicits discussion about some of the biggest intellectual and scientific...