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adam_text | Titel: This explains everything
Autor: Brockman, John
Jahr: 2013
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
PREFACE: The Edge Question, by John Brockman
SUSAN BLACKMORE
Evolution by Means of Natural Selection
MATT RIDLEY
Life Is a Digital Code
RICHARD DAWKINS
Redundancy Reduction and Pattern Recognition
SCOTT ATRAN
The Power of Absurdity
CARLO ROVELLI
How Apparent Finality Can Emerge
AUBREY DE GREY
The Overdue Demise of Monogamy
LEONARD SUSSKIND
Boltzmann s Explanation of the Second
Law of Thermodynamics
JOEL GOLD
The Dark Matter of the Mind
ALAN ALDA
There Are More Things in Heaven and Earth ..
Than Are Dreamt of in Your Philosophy.
REBECCA NEWBERGER GOLDSTEIN
An Unresolved (and Therefore Unbeautiful)
Reaction to the Edge Question
JAMES J. O DONNELL
Ptolemy s Universe
PAUL STEINHARDT
Quasi-Elegance
SHING-TUNG YAU
Mathematical Object or Natural Object?
FRANK WILCZEK
Simplicity
THOMAS METZINGER
Simplicity Itself
SEAN CARROLL
Einstein Explains Why Gravity Is Universal
STEVEN PINKER
Evolutionary Genetics and the Conflicts of Human Social Life
JONATHAN GOTTSCHALL
The Faurie-Raymond Hypothesis
DAVID G. MYERS
Group Polarization
ARMAND MARIE LEROI
The Price Equation
GERD GIGERENZER
Unconscious Inferences
MARTIN J. REES
Snowflakes and the Multiverse
ANTON ZEILINGER
Einstein s Photons
JEREMY BERNSTEIN
Go Small
ANDREI LINDE
Why Is Our World Comprehensible?
GEORGE DYSON
Alfvén s Cosmos
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MAX TEGMARK
Our Universe Grew Like a Baby
GINO SEGRÈ
Kepler et al. and the Nonexistent Problem
FREEMAN DYSON
How Incompatible Worldviews Can Coexist
SATYAJIT DAS
Impossible Inexactness
HAIM HARARI
The Next Level of Fundamental Matter?
ROBERT PROVINE
Observers Observing
V. S. RAMACHANDRAN
Genes, Claustrum, and Consciousness
DAVID M. EAGLEMAN
Overlapping Solutions
MAHZARIN BANAJI
Our Bounded Rationality
ROBERT SAPOLSKY
Swarm Intelligence
KEITH DEVLIN
Language and Natural Selection
RICHARD H. THALER
Commitment
JENNIFER JACQUET
Tit for Tat
JUDITH RICH HARRIS
True or False: Beauty Is Truth
DAN SPERBER
Eratosthenes and the Modular Mind
CLAY SHIRKY 112
Dan Sperber s Explanation of Culture
HUGO MERCIER 116
Metarepresentations Explain Human Uniqueness
NICHOLAS HUMPHREY 119
Why the Human Mind May Seem to Have an
Elegant Explanation Even If It Doesn t
STEWART BRAND 122
Fitness Landscapes
KEVIN P. HAND 125
On Oceans and Airport Security
PAUL SAFFO 127
Plate Tectonics Elegantly Validates Continental Drift
DANIEL C. DENNETT 129
Why Some Sea Turtles Migrate
CARL ZIMMER 131
A Hot Young Earth: Unquestionably
Beautiful and Stunningly Wrong
DAVID M. BUSS 134
Sexual-Conflict Theory
DAVID PIZARRO 136
The Seeds of Historical Dominance
HOWARD GARDNER 137
The Importance of Individuals
ANDRIAN KREYE 139
Subjective Environment
RAPHAEL BOUSSO 141
My Favorite Annoying Elegant Explanation: Quantum Theory
ERIC R. WEINSTEIN 144
Einstein s Revenge: The New Geometric Quantum
X
DAVE WINER 148
What Time Is It?
TAÑIA LOMBROZO 149
Realism and Other Metaphysical Half-Truths
SEIRIAN SUMNER 152
All We Need Is Help
HELENA CRONIN 156
In the Beginning Is the Theory
PAUL BLOOM 161
Thompson on Development
JOHN McWHORTER 163
How Do You Get from a Lobster to a Cat?
GREGORY COCHRAN 166
Germs Cause Disease
CHRISTINE FINN 168
Dirt Is Matter Out of Place
ANDREW LIH 169
Information Is the Resolution of Uncertainty
PZ MYERS 172
Everything Is the Way It Is Because It Got That Way
DAVID CHRISTIAN 174
The Idea of Emergence
DIMITAR D. SASSELOV 177
Frames of Reference
HELEN FISHER 179
Epigenetics—the Missing Link
JOHN NAUGHTON 183
Flocking Behavior in Birds
BARRY C. SMITH 184
Lemons Are Fast
JOHN TOOBY 187
Falling into Place: Entropy and the Desperate
Ingenuity of Life
PETER ATKINS 191
Why Things Happen
ELIZABETH DUNN 193
Why We Feel Pressed for Time
BART KOSKO 196
Why the Sun Still Shines
CHARLES SIMONYI 198
Boscovich s Explanation of Atomic Forces
GREGORY S. PAUL 201
Birds Are the Direct Descendants of Dinosaurs
BRUCE HOOD 204
Complexity Out of Simplicity
A. C. GRAYLING 206
Russell s Theory of Descriptions
TIMO HANNAY 208
Feynman s Lifeguard
BRIAN ENO 210
The Limits of Intuition
LISA RANDALL 212
The Higgs Mechanism
SIMONE SCHNALL 215
The Mind Thinks in Embodied Metaphors
BENJAMIN K. BERGEN 218
Metaphors Are in the Mind
JON KLEINBERG 221
The Pigeonhole Principle
xii
MARTI HEARST
Why Programs Have Bugs
HANS -ULRICH OBRIST
Cagepatterns
SETH LLOYD
The True Rotational Symmetry of Sp;
CHARLES SEIFE
The Pigeonhole Principle Revisited
RODNEY A. BROOKS
Moore s Law
JOHN C. MATHER
Cosmic Complexity
SCOTT SAMPSON
The Gaia Hypothesis
LAURENCE C. SMITH
The Continuity Equations
TIM O REILLY
Pascal s Wager
S. ABBAS RAZA
Evolutionarily Stable Strategies
EVGENY MOROZOV
The Collingridge Dilemma
ERNST PÖPPEL
Trusting Trust
BRUCE PARKER
It Just Is?
PATRICK BATESON
Subverting Biology
SIMON BARON-COHEN
Sex at Your Fingertips
ALVY RAY SMITH 269
Why Do Movies Move?
ALBERT-LÁSZLÓ BARABÁSI 273
Would You Like Blue Cheese with It?
STUART PIMM 276
Mother Nature s Laws
KARL SABBAGH 280
The Oklo Pyramid
ADAM ALTER 283
Kitty Genovese and Group Apathy
GERALD SMALLBERG 285
The Wizard of I
DOUGLAS COUPLAND 287
One Coincidence; Two Déjà Vus
KATINKA MATSON 289
Occam s Razor
ALUN ANDERSON 290
Deep Time
ERIC R. KANDEL 292
Placing Psychotherapy on a Scientific Basis: Five Easy Lessons
SHERRY TURKLE 296
Transitional Objects
RANDOLPH NESSE 299
Natural Selection Is Simple but the Systems It
Shapes Are Unimaginably Complex
MARCEL KINSBOURNE 303
How to Have a Good Idea
NICHOLAS A. CHRISTAKIS 305
Out of the Mouths of Babes
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PHILIP CAMPBELL
308
The Beauty in a Sunrise
DYLAN EVANS 312
The Origin of Money
DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF 315
The Precession of the Simulacra
PHILIP ZIMBARDO 317
Time Perspective Theory
ALISON GOPNIK 320
Developmental Timing Explains the Woes of Adolescence
STEPHEN M. KOSSLYN AND ROBIN ROSENBERG 324
Implications of Ivan Pavlov s Great Discovery
TERRENCE J. SEJNOWSKI 328
Nature Is Cleverer Than We Are
MICHAEL I. NORTON 332
Imposing Randomness
LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS 334
The Unification of Electricity and Magnetism
NEIL GERSHENFELD 337
Furry Rubber Bands
LEE SMOLIN 339
The Principle of Inertia
ERIC J. TOPOL 343
Seeing Is Believing: From Placebos to Movies in Our Brain
GERALD HOLTON
345
The Discontinuity of Science and Culture
NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB
347
Hormesis Is Redundancy
ROBERT KURZBAN
351
The Beautiful Law of Unintended Consequences
XV
TIMOTHY D. WILSON 354
We Are What We Do
SAMUEL BARONDES 356
Personality Differences: The Importance of Chance
BEATRICE GOLOMB 359
Metabolic Syndrome: Cell Energy Adaptations
in a Toxic World?
EMANUEL DERMAN 364
Death Is the Final Repayment
DAVID GELERNTER 365
Denumerable Infinities and Mental States
RUDY RUCKER 367
Inverse Power Laws
SAMUEL ARBESMAN 370
How the Leopard Got His Spots
STANISLAS DEHAENE 372
The Universal Algorithm for Human Decision Making
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI 376
Lord Acton s Dilemma
VICTORIA STODDEN 377
Fact, Fiction, and Our Probabilitic World
GEORGE CHURCH 381
Elegant = Complex
IRENE PEPPERBERG 383
Tinbergen s Questions
GLORIA ORIGGI 385
The Universal Turing Machine
RICHARD FOREMAN 387
A Matter of Poetics
xvi
JARED DIAMOND 389
The Origins of Biological Electricity
TIMOTHY TAYLOR 392
Why the Greeks Painted Red People on Black Pots
ANDY CLARK 395
Language As an Adaptive System
NICHOLAS J. CARR 397
The Mechanism of Mediocrity
MICHAEL SHERMER 399
The Principle of Empiricism, or See for Yourself
KEVIN KELLY 402
We Are Stardust
INDEX 403
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