Edge Dinner, 2013
To arrive at the edge of the world's knowledge, seek out the most complex and sophisticated minds,
put them in a room together, and have them ask each other the questions they are asking themselves.
Edge Dinner, 2013
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[27]Recently we have published a number of Conversations on related subjects such as "Big Data", "Linked Data", "Data Science", "Web Science", "Semantic Web", "Network Science". Clearly, a new realm is rapidly coming into public consciousness.
In this regard, we have set up this "Special Event" page on "Computational Social Science" to organize and present this material to our readers and to provide access to the ongoing Edge Conversations and related discussions.
Published to date are eight Conversations with: Dirk Helbing [29], Nicholas A. Christakis [30], J. Craig Venter [31], J. Craig Venter [31], Cesar Hidalgo [32], Sandy Pentland [33], Albert-László Barabási [34] and Tim O'Reilly [35]. The presentations include more than five hours of video as well as the texts.
—John Brockman [3]
Editor
"THE CLOTHESLINE PARADOX" [36]
A Conversation with Tim O'Reilly [10.4.12]
If we're going to get science policy right, it's really important for us to study the economic benefit of open access and not accept the arguments of incumbents. Existing media companies claim that they need ever stronger and longer copyright protection and new, draconian laws to protect them, and meanwhile, new free ecosystems, like the Web, have actually led to enormous wealth creation and enormous new opportunities for social value. And yes, they did in fact lead in some cases to the destruction of incumbents, but that's the kind of creative destruction that we should celebrate in the economy. We have to accept that, particularly in the area of science, there's an incredible opportunity for open access to enable new business models.
TIM O'REILLY is the founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, Inc., a leading computer book publisher. O'Reilly Media also hosts conferences on technology topics, including the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, the Strata series of conferences on big data, and Tools of Change for Publishing. O'Reilly Media's Maker Media unit publishes Make Magazine and operates Maker Faire, the world's largest gathering of DIY hardware enthusiasts and entrepreneurs. O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures is a leading early stage venture capital firm.
Tim O'Reilly's Edge Bio Page [35]
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THINKING IN NETWORK TERMS [37]
A Conversation with Albert-lászló Barabási [9.24.12]
One question that fascinated me in the last two years is, can we ever use data to control systems? Could we go as far as, not only describe and quantify and mathematically formulate and perhaps predict the behavior of a system, but could you use this knowledge to be able to control a complex system, to control a social system, to control an economic system?
ALBERT-LÁSZLÓ BARABÁSI is a Distinguished University Professor at Northeastern University, where he directs the Center for Complex Network Research, and holds appointments in the Departments of Physics, Computer Science and Biology, as well as in the Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women Hospital, and is a member of the Center for Cancer Systems Biology at Dana Farber Cancer Institute.
Albert-László Barabási Edge Bio Page [34]
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REINVENTING SOCIETY IN THE WAKE OF BIG DATA [38]
A Conversation with Alex (Sandy) Pentland [8.30.12]
With Big Data we can now begin to actually look at the details of social interaction and how those play out, and are no longer limited to averages like market indices or election results. This is an astounding change. The ability to see the details of the market, of political revolutions, and to be able to predict and control them is definitely a case of Promethean fire --- it could be used for good or for ill, and so Big data brings us to interesting times. We're going to end up reinventing what it means to have a human socie
ALEX 'SANDY' PENTLAND is a pioneer in big data, computational social science, mobile and health systems, and technology for developing countries. He is one of the most-cited computer scientists in the world and was named by Forbes as one of the world's seven most powerful data scientists. He currently directs the
Sandy Pentland's Edge Bio Page [33]
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WHAT IS VALUE? WHAT IS MONEY? [39]
A Conversation with Cesar Hidalgo [8.28.12]
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We have always had this tension of understanding the world, at small spatial scales or individual scales, and large macro scales. In the past when we looked at macro scales, at least when it comes to many social phenomena, we aggregated everything. Our idea of macro is, by an accident of history, a synonym of aggregate, a mass in which everything is added up and in which individuality is lost. What data at high spatial resolution, temporal resolution and typological resolution is allowing us to do, is to see the big picture without losing the individuality inside it.
CESAR HIDALGO is an assistant professor at the MIT Media Lab, and faculty associate at Harvard University’s Center for International Development. His work focuses on improving the understanding of systems by using and developing concepts of complexity, evolution, and network science. He is also the founder and driving force behind Cambridge Nights, a series of online video interviews with academics who discuss the way in which they view the world.
Cesar Hidalgo's Edge Bio Page [32]
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A NEW KIND OF SOCIAL SCIENCE FOR THE 21st CENTURY [41]
A Conversation with Nicholas A. Christakis [8.21.12]
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These three things—a biological hurricane, computational social science, and the rediscovery of experimentation—are going to change the social sciences in the 21st century. With that change will come, in my judgment, a variety of discoveries and opportunities that offer tremendous prospect for improving the human condition.
It's one thing to say that the way in which we study our object of inquiry, namely humans, is undergoing profound change, as I think it is. The social sciences are indeed changing. But the next question is: is the object of inquiry also undergoing profound change? It's not just how we study it that's changing, which it is. The question is: is the thing itself, our humanity, also changing?
NICHOLAS A. CHRISTAKIS is a Physician and Social Scientist, Harvard University; Coauthor (with James Fowler) of Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives.
Nicholas A. Chrsitakis's Edge Bio Page [30]
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BIOLOGY AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT [42]
After Dinner Talk by J. Craig Venter [7.10.12]
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We can now send biology at the speed of light, and this is one of the implications of our work, which we recorded two years ago making the first synthetic life form. We completely synthesized the genetic code of a cell starting with a digital code in the computer—it's the ultimate interface between computers and biology. The digital code and the genetic code have a lot in common; something Schrodinger pointed out in 1943, saying it could be something as simple as the Morse code. ... Digital code, as you know, is a binary code, and ones and zeroes, and your genetic code is literally four-base code with ACGs and Ts. We can now readily convert in between the two, and we can define life at its most basic level. Things that were a mystery fifty, sixty, seventy years ago, we now understand completely.
Genomics researcher J. CRAIG VENTER is regarded as one of the leading scientists of the 21st century, most notably for the first sequencing and analysis of the human genome published in 2001 and the most recent and most complete sequencing of his diploid human genome in 2007. He is Co-Founder, Chairman, Synthetic Genomics, Inc.; Founder, J. Craig Venter Institute; Author, A Life Decoded.
J. Craig Venter's Edge Bio Page [31]
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WHAT IS LIFE? A 21st CENTURY PERSPECTIVE [43]
On the 70th Anniversary of Schroedinger's Lecture at Trinity College by J. Craig Venter [7.12.12]
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I view DNA as an analogue coding molecule, and when we sequence the DNA, we are converting that analogue code into digital code; the 1s and 0s in the computer are very similar to the dots and dashes of Schrodinger's metaphor. I call this process "digitizing biology".
Genomics researcher J. CRAIG VENTER is regarded as one of the leading scientists of the 21st century, most notably for the first sequencing and analysis of the human genome published in 2001 and the most recent and most complete sequencing of his diploid human genome in 2007. He is Co-Founder, Chairman, Synthetic Genomics, Inc.; Founder, J. Craig Venter Institute; Author, A Life Decoded.
J. Craig Venter's Edge Bio Page [31]
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A NEW KIND OF SOCIO-INSPIRED TECHNOLOGY [44]
Dirk Helbing [6.19.12]
There's a new kind of socio-inspired technology coming up, now. Society has many wonderful self-organization mechanisms that we can learn from, such as trust, reputation, culture. If we can learn how to implement that in our technological system, that is worth a lot of money; billions of dollars, actually. We think this is the next step after bio-inspired technology.
PROFESSOR DIRK HELBING is Chair of Sociology, in particular of Modeling and Simulation, at ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, and the Scientific Coordinator of the FuturICT Flagship Proposal.
Dirk Helbing's Edge Bio Page [29]
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[48] [49]THE NEW YORK TIMES
MAN IN THE NEWS | BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA
4 Years Later, Scarred but Still Confident [51]
By Peter Baker
September 6, 2012
...The Limits of Rationality
A few months ago, Mr. Obama read “Thinking, Fast and Slow,” by Daniel Kahneman, about how people make decisions — quick, instinctive thinking versus slower, contemplative deliberation. For Mr. Obama, a deliberator in an instinctive business, this may be as instructive as any political science text.
Mr. Obama, the 51-year-old Harvard law graduate, sees himself as a rational thinker and came to office with what might be called the Reasonable Person Theory of Government. If he could simply sit down and talk with other political actors, whether they be Republicans from the House or mullahs from Tehran, he seemed certain he could work something out. His faith in his own powers of persuasion was deep.
But politics is often not rational, at least not as Mr. Obama defined it. The Iranians have proved immune to Mr. Obama’s charm, as have the North Koreans, the Taliban and Vladimir V. Putin. So have the Republicans and, for that matter, even some Democrats. ...
A SHORT COURSE IN THINKING ABOUT THINKING [52]
Edge Master Class 07
DANIEL KAHNEMAN
Auberge du Soleil, Rutherford, CA, July 20-22, 2007
AN EDGE SPECIAL PROJECT
[EdgeVideo: 50 minutes]
What we're saying is that there is a technology emerging from behavioral economics. It's not only an abstract thing. You can do things with it. We are just at the beginning. I thought that the input of psychology into behavioral economics was done. But hearing Sendhil was very encouraging because there was a lot of new psychology there. That conversation is continuing and it looks to me as if that conversation is going to go forward. It's pretty intuitive, based on research, good theory, and important. — Daniel Kahneman
A SHORT COURSE IN BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS [53]
Edge Master Class 2008
Richard Thaler, Sendhil Mullainathan, Daniel Kahneman
Sonoma, CA, July 25-27, 2008
AN EDGE SPECIAL PROJECT
There's new technology emerging from behavioral economics and we are just starting to make use of that. I thought the input of psychology into economics was finished but clearly it's not!
TWO BIG THINGS HAPPENING IN PSYCHOLOGY TODAY (Class 4) [54]
A Talk By Daniel Kahneman
[EdgeVideo: 13 minutes]
PUTTING PSYCHOLOGY INTO BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS (Class 6) [55]
Richard Thaler, Sendhil Mullainathan, Daniel Kahneman
"We'd certainly be better off if everyone sampled the fabulous Edge symposium, which, like the best in science, is modest and daring all at once." — David Brooks, New York Times column
Master Class 2011
The Science of Human Nature [56]
[7.15.11]
Daniel Kahneman, Martin Nowak, Steven Pinker, Leda Cosmides, Michael Gazzaniga, Elaine Pagels
The power of settings, the power of priming, and the power of unconscious thinking, all of those are a major change in psychology. I can't think of a bigger change in my lifetime. You were asking what's exciting? That's exciting, to me.
THE MARVELS AND THE FLAWS OF INTUITIVE THINKING [57]
Daniel Kahneman
[EdgeVideo: 81 minutes]
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Ginevra Elkann [64] e Carlo Antonelli [65]
hanno il piacere di invitarla all'
Edge Dinner
in onore di John Brockman, J. Craig Venter e Brian Eno
martedi 10 Luglio
ore 19.30 aperitivo
ore 20.30 cena
Ristorante Del Cambio – Piazza Carignano, 2 – Torino
After Dinner Talk:
J. Craig Venter [66]: "Biology At The Speed Of Light" [42]
DINNER HOSTS
Ginevra Elkann [67], Film Producer, Asmara Films; President, Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli
Carlo Antonelli [68], Editor in Chief, Wired Magazine, Italy
ATTENDEES
Massimo Banzi [69], Co-founder, Arduino Project
Gabriele Beccaria [70], Editor, Tutto Scienza, science supplement of La Stampa
Tommaso Bertani [71], DJ
Vittorio Bo [72], Director, Genoa Science Festival; Codice Publishing
John Brockman [73], Publisher & Editor, Edge.org; CEO, Brockman, Inc.; Author.
Mario Calabresi [74], Italian Journalist and Author; Director, La Stampa
Andrea Cane [75], Publishing Director, Trade Division, De Agostini Editore
Max Casacci [76], Guitarist, Producer
Franca De D'Agostini [77], Philosopher, University of Turin & University of Milan
Alain Elkann [78], Novelist, Journalist; President, Egyptian Museum of Turin; Director of Cultural Programs, Italian Television
Brian Eno [79], Artist; Composer; Recording Producer: U2, Coldplay, Talking Heads, Paul Simon; Recording Artist
Lara Favaretto [80], Artist
Marco Gilli [81], Director Politecnico di Torino; Professor, Department of Electronics and Telecommunication
Jennifer Jacquet [82], Researcher, NYU, studying the effect of honor and shame on cooperation
Heather Kowalski, [83] Communications Consultant, J. Craig Venter Institute
Arto Lindsay [84], Pop Musician, Audio Provocateur, Producer
Katinka Matson [85], Artist; Literary Agent; President, Brockman, Inc.; Co-Founder, Edge.org
Marzia Migliora [86], Artist
Martina Mondadori [87], Publisher, Tar [88]magazine; Non-Executive Member, Board of Directors, Momdadori
Franco Noero [89], Galleria Franco Noero
Marcella Pralormo [90], Director, Pinacoteca Agnelli
Gaetano Prisciantelli [91], Journalist, Il Venredi, La Rebbublica
Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo [92], Director, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo
Tadjbakhsh Shahriar [93], COO, EXOR; Former Director, Goldman Sachs, Paris
Gianluigi Ricuperati [94], Writer and Essayist, La Repubblica
Scarlett Rouge [95], Artist
J Craig Venter [66], Genomics Researcher; Synthetic Genomics, Inc.; J. Craig Venter Institute; Author, A Life Decoded
[98] [99]TURIN, TUESDAY, JULY 10
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THE PERMANENT COLLECTION
Jennifer Jacquet [64] & Ginevra Elkann [103], President, Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli
EDGE DINNER IN TORINO
Ginevra Elkann [64] e Carlo Antonelli [65]
hanno il piacere di invitarla all'
Edge dinner
in onore di John Brockman, Craig Venter e Brian Eno
martedì 10 luglio
ore 19.30 aperitivo
ore 20.30 cena
Ristorante Del Cambio – Piazza Carignano, 2 – Torino
After Dinner Talk:
J. CRAIG VENTER [66] ANNOUNCES " [42]THE DIGITAL BIOLOGICAL CONVERTER: BIOLOGY AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT" [42]
DINNER HOSTS
Ginevra Elkann [67], Film Producer, Asmara Films; President, Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli
ATTENDEES
Massimo Banzi [69], Co-founder, Arduino Project
Gabriele Beccaria [70], Editor, Tutto Scienza, science supplement of La Stampa
Tommaso Bertani [71], DJ
Vittorio Bo [72], Director, Genoa Science Festival; Codice Publishing
John Brockman [73], Publisher & Editor, Edge.org; CEO, Brockman, Inc.; Author.
Mario Calabresi [74], Italian Journalist and Author; Director, La Stampa
Andrea Cane [75], Publishing Director, Trade Division, De Agostini Editore
Max Casacci [76], Guitarist, Producer
Franca De D'Agostini [77], Philosopher, University of Turin & University of Milan
Alain Elkann [78], Novelist, Journalist; President, Egyptian Museum of Turin; Director of Cultural Programs, Italian Television
Brian Eno [79], Artist; Composer; Recording Producer: U2, Coldplay, Talking Heads, Paul Simon; Recording Artist
Lara Favaretto [80], Artist
Marco Gilli [81], Director Politecnico di Torino; Professor, Department of Electronics and Telecommunication
Jennifer Jacquet [82], Researcher, NYU, studying the effect of honor and shame on cooperation
Heather Kowalski, [83] Communications Consultant, J. Craig Venter Institute
Arto Lindsay [84], Pop Musician, Audio Provocateur, Producer
Katinka Matson [85], Artist; Literary Agent; President, Brockman, Inc.; Co-Founder, Edge.org
Marzia Migliora [86], Artist
Martina Mondadori [87], Publisher, Tar [88]magazine; Non-Executive Member, Board of Directors, Momdadori
Franco Noero [89], Galleria Franco Noero
Marcella Pralormo [90], Director, Pinacoteca Agnelli
Gaetano Prisciantelli [91], Journalist, Il Venredi, La Rebbublica
Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo [92], Director, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo
Tadjbakhsh Shahriar [93], COO, EXOR; Former Director, Goldman Sachs, Paris
Gianluigi Ricuperati [94], Writer and Essayist, La Repubblica
Scarlett Rouge [95], Artist
J Craig Venter [66], Genomics Researcher; Synthetic Genomics, Inc.; J. Craig Venter Institute; Author, A Life Decoded
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J. Craig Venter [66] & Ginevra Elkann [103]
DUBLIN, THURSDAY, JULY 12
To celebrate the 70th anniversary of Schroedinger's famous lecture, J. Craig Venter [66] speaks at Examination Hall, Trinity College, Dublin on
WHAT IS LIFE [105]?
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DUBLIN, SATURDAY, JULY 14
CRAIG VENTER DELIVERS KEYNOTE SPEECH AT EUROPEAN SCIENCE OPEN FORUM, DUBLIN
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Charles Arthur Digital Wars: Apple, Google, Microsoft and the Battle for the Internet |
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Roy Baumeister and John Tierney Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength |
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Jesse Bering Why Is the Penis Shaped Like That?: And Other Reflections on Being Human |
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Nick Bilton I Live in the Future & Here's How It Works: Why Your World, Work & Brain Are Being Creatively Disrupted [Paperback] |
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David Brooks The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement  |
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David M. Buss Dangerous Passion  |
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Benedict Carey Poison Most Vial: A Mystery |
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Douglas Coupland Highly Inappropriate Tales for Young People  |
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Brian Cox & Arthur Cohen Wonders of the Universe |
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Antonio Damasio Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain |
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Richard Dawkins & Dave Mckean The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True  |
Emanuel Derman Models.Behaving.Badly: Why Confusing Illusion with Reality Can Lead to Disaster, on Wall Street and in Life  |
David Deutsch The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World[paperback]  |
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Peter Diamandis Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think  |
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George Dyson Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe  |
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Daniel L. Everett Language: The Cultural Tool  |
Stuart Firestein Ignorance: How It Drives Science  |
Michael Gazzaniga Who's in Charge?: Free Will and the Science of the Brain  |
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James Geary Is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How It Shapes the Way We See the World[Paperback]  |
David Gelernter America-Lite: How Imperial Academia Dismantled Our Culture (and Ushered In the Obamacrats)  |
Karl W. Giberson The Wonder of the Universe: Hints of God in Our Fine-Tuned World  |
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Anthony Giddens The Third Way (A New edition)  |
John Gottman & Nan Silver What Makes Love Last?: How to Build Trust and Avoid Betrayal  |
Jonathan Gottschall The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human  |
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A. C. Graylin The Good Book March 2011  |
Brian Greene The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos [Paperback] |
Jonathan Haidt The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion  |
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Paul Harris Trusting What You're Told: How Children Learn from Others  |
Sam Harris Free Will |
Mark Henderson The Geek Manifesto: Why Science Matters  |
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John Horgan The End of War |
Arianna Huffington Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Ordinary Citizen |
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Walter Isaacson Steve Jobs  |
Alok Jha 50 Ways the World Is Going to End: The Biggest Threats to the Planet. by Alok Jha  |
Steven Johnson Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation [Paperback]  |
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Daniel Kahneman Thinking, Fast and Slow  |
Eric R. Kandel The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present  |
Andrew Keen Digital Vertigo: How Today's Online Social Revolution Is Dividing, Diminishing, and Disorienting Us  |
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Christian Keysers The Empathic Brain  |
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Lawrence M. Krauss A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing  |
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John Lloyd The Second Book of General Ignorance: Everything You Think You Know Is (Still) Wrong  |
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Annalena Mcafee The Spoiler |
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John Mcwhorter What Language Is  |
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John Naughton Knowledge: Everything You Really Need to Know about the Internet  |
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Mark Pagel Wired for Culture: Origins of the Human Social Mind  |
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Bruce Parker The Power of the Sea: Tsunamis, Storm Surges, Rogue Waves, and Our Quest to Predict Disasters (Macsci) [paperback]  |
Christopher Phillips Constitution Café: Jefferson's Brew for a True Revolution [Paperback]  |
Clifford Pickover The Physics Book: From the Big Bang to Quantum Resurrection, 250 Milestones in the History of Physics (Sterling Milestones)  |
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Daniel Pink Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us  |
Steven Pinker The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined  |
William Poundstone Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google?: Trick Questions, Zen-like Riddles, Insanely Difficult Puzzles, and Other Devious Interviewing Techniques You ... Know to Get a Job Anywhere in the New Economy  |
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Jesse Prinz The Conscious Brain (Philosophy of Mind)  |
Robert Provine Curious Behavior: Yawning, Laughing, Hiccupping, and Beyond  |
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Lisa Randall Knocking on Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World  |
Martin Rees From Here to Infinity: A Vision for the Future of Science  |
Ed Regis & George Church Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves  |
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Howard Rheingold Net Smart: How to Thrive Online  |
Steven Rose & Hilary Rose Genes, Cells and Brains: Bioscience's Promethean Promises |
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Robin S. Rosenberg What's the Matter With Batman?: An Unauthorized Clinical Look Under the Mask of the Caped Crusader  |
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Douglas Rushkoff Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age  |
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[230] [231]"EDGE'S LONG-FORM INTERVIEW VIDEOS ARE A DEEP DIVE INTO THE DAILY LIVES AND PASSIONS OF ITS SUBJECTS"
"For those seeking substance over sheen, the occasional videos released at Edge.org hit the mark. The Edge Foundation community is a circle, mainly scientists but also other academics, entrepreneurs, and cultural figures.
Edge's long-form interview videos are a deep-dive into the daily lives and passions of its subjects, and their passions are presented without primers or apologies. The decidedly noncommercial nature of Edge's offerings, and the egghead imprimatur of the Edge community, lend its videos a refreshing air, making one wonder if broadcast television will ever offer half the off-kilter sparkle of their salon chatter."
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EDGE CONVERSATION THE ADOLESCENT BRAIN [233] Royal Society University Research Fellow and Full Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London
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EDGE CONVERSATION SCIENCE IS NOT ABOUT CERTAINTY: A PHILOSOPHY OF PHYSICS [235] Theoretical Physicist; University of the Mediterraneum, Marseille; Author, Quantum Gravity
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EDGE CONVERSATION ESSENTIALISM [237] Director of the Bristol Cognitive Development Centre in the Experimental Psychology Department at the University of Bristol; Author, The Self-Illusion
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EDGE CONVERSATION TESTOSTERONE ON MY MIND AND IN MY BRAIN [239] Psychologist, Autism Research Centre, Cambridge University; Author, The Science of Evil
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EDGE CONVERSATION A UNIVERSE OF SELF-REPLICATING CODE [241] Science Historian; Author, Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe; Darwin Among the Machines
We're missing a tremendous opportunity. We're asleep at the switch because it's not a metaphor. In 1945 we actually did create a new universe. This is a universe of numbers with a life of their own, that we only see in terms of what those numbers can do for us. Can they record this interview? Can they play our music? Can they order our books on Amazon? If you cross the mirror in the other direction, there really is a universe of self-reproducing digital code. When I last checked, it was growing by five trillion bits per second. And that's not just a metaphor for something else. It actually is. It's a physical reality. |
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EDGE CONVERSATION ADVENTURES IN BEHAVIORAL NEUROLOGY—OR—WHAT NEUROLOGY CAN TELL US ABOUT HUMAN NATURE [243] Neuroscientist; Professor & Director, Center for Brain and Cognition, UC, San Diego; Author, The Tell-Tale Brain
So here is something staring you in the face, anextraordinary syndrome, utterly mysterious, where a person wants his normal limb removed. Why does this happen? There are all kinds of crazy theories about it including Freudian theories. One theory asserts, for example, that it's an attention seeking behavior. This chap wants attention so he asks you to remove his arm. It doesn't make any sense.Why does he not want his nose removed or ear removed or something less drastic? Why an arm. |
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EDGE CONVERSATION INFINITE STUPIDITY [248] Professor of Evolutionary Biology, Reading University, England and The Santa Fe Institute; Author, Wired for Culture
A tiny number of ideas can go a long way, as we've seen. And the Internet makes that more and more likely. What's happening is that we might, in fact, be at a time in our history where we're being domesticated by these great big societal things, such as Facebook and the Internet. We're being domesticated by them, because fewer and fewer and fewer of us have to be innovators to get by. And so, in the cold calculus of evolution by natural selection, at no greater time in history than ever before, copiers are probably doing better than innovators. |
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EDGE CONVERSATION THINKING ABOUT THE UNIVERSE ON THE LARGER SCALES [251] Professor of Theoretical Physics, Berkeley
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EDGE CONVERSATION A ROUGH MIX: BRIAN ENO & JENNIFER JACQUET [253]
ENO: Artist; Composer; Recording Producer: U2, Coldplay, Talking Heads, Paul Simon; Recording Artist, Small Craft on a Milk Sea
JACQUET: Postdoctoral Researcher, Fisheries Centre/Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia, researching cooperation and the tragedy of the commons
ENO: Usually one is asked to do music for films but this is for a totem pole. JACQUET: Throughout the 19th century, native tribes that spanned the north coast of North America erected shame totem poles to signal to the community that certain individuals or groups had transgressed.
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EDGE ON THE ROAD EDGE @ SCIFOO [64] WILCZEK Physicist, MIT; Recipient, 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics; Author, The Lightness of Being HANNAY Managing Director, Digital Science, Macmillan Publishers Ltd.;Former Publisher, Nature.com; Co-Organizer, Sci Foo
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EDGE CONVERSATION THE LOCAL-GLOBAL FLIP, OR, "THE LANIER EFFECT" [260] Computer scientist; musician; author, You Are Not A Gadget
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EDGE CONVERSATION ON THE SCIENCE OF COOKING [262] CEO and Managing Director, Intellectual Ventures; Co-Author (with Bill Gates), The Road Ahead; Author, Modernist Cuisine
Cooking also obeys the laws of physics, in particular chemistry. Yet it is quite possible to cook without understanding it. You can cook better if you do understand what is going on, particularly if you want to deviate from the ways that people have cooked before. If you want to follow a recipe exactly, slavishly, what the hell, you can do it without understanding it. As a rote automaton, you can say, "yes, I mixed this, I cook at this temperature" and so forth. But if you want to do something really different, if you want to go color outside the lines, if you want to go outside of the recipe, it helps if you have some intuition as to how things work. |
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EDGE MASTER CLASS THE MARVELS AND THE FLOWS OF INTUITIVE THINKING [57] Eugene Higgins Emeritus Professor of Psychology; Nobel Laureate; Author, Thinking Fast and Slow
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EDGE MASTER CLASS THE EVOLUTION OF COOPERATION [265] Professor of Biology and Mathematics, Harvard University; coathor, SuperCooperators
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EDGE MASTER CLASS A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE [267] Johnstone Family Professor, Department of Psychology; Harvard University; Author, The Better Angles of Our Nature
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EDGE MATSER CLASS THE ARCHITECTURE OF MOTIVATION [269] Professor of Psychology at UCSB
Recent research concerning the welfare of others, etc. affects not only how to think about certain emotions, but also overturns how most models of reciprocity and exchange, with implications about how people think about modern markets, political systems, and societies. What are these new approaches to human motivation?
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EDGE MASTER CLASS NEUROSCIENCE AND JUSTICE [271] Neuroscientist, UC Santa Barbara; Author, Who's In Charge
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EDGE CONVERSATION INSIGHT [276] Cognitive Psychologist; Author, Sources of Power; Streetlights and Shadows: Searching for Keys to Adaptive Decision Making
Judgments based on intuition seem mysterious because intuition doesn't involve explicit knowledge. It doesn't involve declarative knowledge about facts. Therefore, we can't explicitly trace the origins of our intuitive judgments. They come from other parts of our knowing. They come from our tacit knowledge and so they feel magical. Intuitions sometimes feel like we have ESP, but it isn't magical, it's really a consequence of the experience we've built up.
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EDGE CONVERSATION WHY CITIES KEEP GROWING, CORPORATIONS AND PEOPLE ALWAYS DIE, AND LIFE GETS FASTER [278] Distinguished Professor and Past President, Santa Fe Institute
The question is, as a scientist, can we take these ideas and do what we did in biology, at least based on networks and other ideas, and put this into a quantitative, mathematizable, predictive theory, so that we can understand the birth and death of companies, how that stimulates the economy?
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EDGE CONVERSATION THE SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL NARRATIVE—OR—WHAT IS SOCIAL OSYCHOLOGY, ANYWAY? [280] Sherrell J. Aston Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia; Co-author, Social Psychology; Author, Strangers to Ourselves; Redirect
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EDGE CONVERSATION THE ARGUMENTATIVE THEORY [282] Postdoc in Philosophy, Politics and Economics program at the University of Pennsylvania
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EDGE CONVERSATION WHO IS THE GREATEST BIOLOGIST OF ALL TIME? [284] Professor of Evolutionary Developmental Biology, Imperial College; Author, Mutants
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EDGE CONVERSATION A SENSE OF CLEANLINESS [286] Director, Cambridge Embodied Cognition and Emotion Laboratory; University Lecturer, Department of Social and Developmental Psychology Cambridge
As far as morality goes, disgust has received a lot of attention, and there has been a lot of work on it. The flip side of it is cleanliness, or being tidy, proper, clean, pure, which has been considered the absence of disgust, or contamination. But there is actually more to being clean, and having things in order. On some level even cleanliness, or the desire to feel clean and pure has a social origin in the sens that primates show social grooming: Monkeys tend to get really close to each other, they pick insects off each other's fur, and it's not just useful in terms of keeping themselves clean, but it has an important social function in terms of bonding them together |
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EDGE@DLD [288]: AN EDGE CONVERSATION IN MUNICH BACK TO ANALOG [289] Science Historian; Author, Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe; Darwin Among the Machines
Where is this whole digital world going? And I'm going to risk being thrown out of here by saying... not that digital is over, but that we've already moved into a new phase, that people just are not recognizing yet: back to analog. We're taking that cathode ray tube back the other way. |
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EDGE SEMINAR THE NEW SCIENCE OF MORALITY [291] Professor of Social Psychology, University of Virginia; Author, The Righteous Mind
I'm all in favor of reductionism, as long as it's paired with emergentism. You've got to be able to go down to the low level, but then also up to the level of institutions and cultural traditions and, all kinds of local factors. A dictum of cultural psychology is that "culture and psyche make each other up." We psychologists are specialists in the psyche. What are the gears turning in the mind? But those gears turn, and they evolved to turn, in various ecological and economic contexts.
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EDGE SEMINAR THE NEW SCENCE OF MORALITY, PART 5 [294] Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor of Psychology, Yale University; Author, How Pleasure Works
As Hrdy points out, this is entirely unexceptional. Billions of people fly each year, and this is how most flights are. But she then imagines what would happen if every individual on the plane was transformed into a chimp. Chaos would reign. By the time the plane landed, there'd be body parts all over the aisles, and the baby would be lucky to make it out alive. The point here is that people are nicer than chimps. |
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EDGE SEMINAR THE NEW SCIENCE OF MORALITY, PART 6 [296] Psychologist, Cornell University
I think that this view is mistaken (although it is certainly the case sometimes). The interaction between these two is much more interesting. So I'm going to talk a bit about some studies that we've done. Some of them have been published, and a couple of them haven't (because they're probably too inappropriate to publish anywhere, but not too inappropriate to speak to this audience). They are on the role of emotive forces in shaping our moral judgment. I use the term "emotive," because they are about motivation and how motivation affects the reasoning process when it comes to moral judgment. |
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EDGE SEMINAR THE SCIENCE OF MORALITY, PART 7 [298] Neuroscientist; Silver Professor of Psychology and Neural Science at New York University
And economists, when thinking about decisions, have also adopted what we call a dual system approach. This is obviously a different dual system approach and here I'm focusing mostly on Kahneman's System 1 and System 2. As probably everybody in this room knows Kahneman and Tversky showed that there were a number of ways in which we make decisions that didn't seem to be completely consistent with classical economic theory and easy to explain. And they proposed Prospect Theory and suggested that we actually have two systems we use when making decisions, one of which we call reason, one of which we call intuition. Kahneman didn't say emotion. He didn't equate emotion with intuition. |
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EDGE MASTER CLASS CLASS 1: LISTENING IN ON THE BODY'S PROTEOMIC CONVERSATION (PART I) [300] Physicist, Computer Scientist, Chairman of Applied Minds, Inc.; author, The Pattern on the Stone
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EDGE MASTER CLASS CLASS 2: LISTENING IN ON THE BODY'S PROTEOMIC CONVERSATION (PART II) [300] Physicist, Computer Scientist, Chairman of Applied Minds, Inc.; author, The Pattern on the Stone
What I've been talking about here is more analysis than construction. The genome is used to construct things, and I'm claiming it's not the best place for analysis of what's going on. Certainly there are times it is useful, but I don't think that's where most of the information is. In fact, in some sense, it is literally true that the information that's in proteomics tells you everything that was in the genome, everything useful that was in the genome. In a sense, the genome is redundant if you have the proteomics, that's theoretical though, because the genome is digital, and we actually have it. In many ways it's enabled proteomics. |
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EDGE CONVERSATION EAT ME BEFORE I EAT YOU! A NEW FOE FOR BAD BUGS [301] Nobel Prize winner, Chemistry 1993; author, Dancing Naked in the Mind Field
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EDGE CONVERSATION DON'T DISAPPEAR INTO A DREAM [304] Playwright & Director; Founder, The Ontological-Hysteric Theater
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EDGE CONVERSATION TOXO [306] Neuroscientist, Stanford University; Author, Monkeyluv
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SIGNATURES OF CONSCIOUSNESS [308] Stanislas Dehaene [309] DEHAENE Neuroscientist; Collège de France, Paris; Author, The Number Sense; Reading In the Brain
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EDGE MASTER CLASS THE IRONY OF POVERTY (CLASS 5) [310] Professor of Economics at Harvard
I want to close a loop, which I'm calling "The Irony of Poverty." On the one hand, lack of slack tells us the poor must make higher quality decisions because they don't have slack to help buffer them with things. But even though they have to supply higher quality decisions, they're in a worse position to supply them because they |
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[327] [328]On Sunday, October 16th, Edge, at the invitation of London's leading curator, and long-time collaborator, Hans Ulrich Obrist [330] (HUO), co-director of the Serpentine Gallery, participated in The Serpentine Gallery Garden Marathon [331], the sixth in the Gallery’s acclaimed Marathon series. The Garden Marathon explored the concept of the garden.
As Obrist noted,
"A product of the creative encounter between the man-made and the natural, between order and disorder, the garden can offer productive metaphors for the interactions between human life and time, care, thought or space."
"The event is directly inspired by the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2011, designed by Peter Zumthor. The encounter of architecture and garden creates a contemplative space that is both set within – and meditatively separated from – the wider surroundings of Kensington Gardens.
"Participations will range from the fields of horticulture, design and architecture to explore the creation of gardens and their spatial, urban and scientific importance, through to works by artists and readings by poets and writers exploring the significance of the garden in our experience of the world."
[Photo: Stefano Boeri, Vertical Forest, © Stefano Boeri]
Other recent collaborations between Edge and HUO have included "What is your Formula, Your Equation, Your Algorithm: Formulae for the 21st Century" [332] in 2007. "Maps for the 21st Century [333]" in 2010. HUO and I have also had the pleasure of writing about each other. See " [334]Brockman's Taste for Science, or how to entertain the smartest people" [334] by Hans Ulrich Obrist, and "A Rule of the Game: A Talk with Hans Ulrich Obrist [335] on Edge.
INFORMATION GARDENS consisted of talks by Mark Pagel, Jennifer Jacquet, and Brian Eno.
John Brockman [319]
In Conversation with:
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Mark Page [249]l [249], Cities as Gardens
"Up until 10,000 years ago there were no permanent settlements and all human groups lived by hunting and gathering. Then agriculture was discovered and everything changed. Now a small number of people could supply food for the rest and the first cities arose. Every since that time there has been a steady movement of people out of our original arcadia and into cities, such that now over half the world lives in them. But why given that cities have historically been targets of attack and places of crime and where diseases fester and spread? The answer is that cities have acted as gardens of our prosperity, creativity and innovations and their continued existence is vital to fitting the projected 9 billion people onto this planet. Surprisingly, they are the new 'green centres' of the world."
MARK PAGEL is a Fellow of the Royal Society and Professor of Evolutionary Biology; Head of the Evolution Laboratory at the University of Reading; Author Oxford Encyclopaedia of Evolution; co-author of The Comparative Method in Evolutionary Biology. Forthcoming book Wired for Culture: Origins of the Human Social Mind.
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Jennifer Jacquet [336], Shame Totem v.2.0
"Throughout the 19th century, native tribes that spanned the north coast of North America erected shame totem poles to signal to the community that certain individuals or groups had transgressed. This art is resurrected with a modernized, garish, digitally rendered 3-D shame pole to represent the most shameful corporations – chosen with the assistance of 500 people based in the U.S. who surveyed about the corporations that have most negatively affected society. The talk will describe the relationship between gardens and shame, a historical view on shame totems, the specific concept for this work, and details of its creation."
JENNIFER JACQUET is a Postdoctoral Researcher, Fisheries Centre/Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia; Research interests incude environmental sustainability (particularly fish), the evolution and function of guilt, honor, and shame, and the role of information technology in shaping environmental action.
[254]BRIAN ENO is an Artist; Composer; Recording Producer: U2, Cold Play, Talking Heads, Paul Simon; Recording Artist ( Drums Between the Bells, Small Craft on a Milk Sea, Everything That Happens Will Happen Today, Another Green World).
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[339] [340]Daniel Kahneman [342], Martin Nowak [266], Steven Pinker [268], Leda Cosmides [343], Michael Gazzaniga [272], Elaine Pagels [275]
"We'd certainly be better off if everyone sampled the fabulous Edge symposium, which, like the best in science, is modest and daring all at once." — David Brooks, New York Times [344] column [344]
In July, Edge held its annual Master Class in Napa, California on the theme: "The Science of Human Nature": Princeton psychologist Daniel Kahneman [345] on the marvels and the flaws of intuitive thinking; Harvard mathematical biologist Martin Nowak [346] [346]on the evolution of cooperation; Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker [347] on the history of violence; UC-Santa Barbara evolutionary psychologist Leda Cosmides [348] [349]on the architecture of motivation; UC-Santa Barbara neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga [350] on neuroscience and the law; and Princeton religious historian Elaine Pagels [351]on The Book of Revelation. In the coming weeks we will publish the complete video, audio, and texts. For publication schedule and details, see below.
Spring Mountain Vineyard [352], St. Helena, Napa, CA
Friday July 15 to Sunday, July 17th
DANIEL KAHNEMAN: "THE MARVELS AND THE FLAWS OF INTUITIVE THINKING" [57]
The power of settings, priming, and unconscious thinking, all are a major change in psychology. I can't think of a bigger change in my lifetime. You were asking what's exciting? That's exciting, to me.
Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology, Princeton University; Recipient, the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences; Author, Thinking Fast and Slow (forthcoming, October 25th).
Daniel Kahneman's Edge Bio Page [342]
[Continue to Daniel Kahneman's Edge Master Class [57]]
MARTIN NOWAK: "THE EVOLUTION OF COOPERATION" [265]
Why has cooperation, not competition, always been the key to the evolution of complexity?
Mathematical Biologist, Game Theorist; Professor of Biology and Mathematics, Director, Center for Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University; Author, SuperCooperators: Altruism, Evolution, and Why We Need Each Other to Succeed
Martin Nowak's Edge Bio Page [266]
[Continue to Martin Nowak's Edge Master Class [265]]
STEVEN PINKER: "A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE" [267]
What may be the most important thing that has ever happened in human history is that violence has gone down, by dramatic degrees, and in many dimensions all over the world and in many spheres of behavior: genocide, war, human sacrifice, torture, slavery, and the treatment of racial minorities, women, children, and animals.
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Harvard College Professor and Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology; Harvard University. Author, The Language Instinct, How the Mind Works, and The Better Angels Of Our Nature: How Violence Has Declined (forthcoming, October 4th)
Steven Pinker's Edge Bio Page [268]
[Continue to Steven Pinker's Edge Master Class [267]]
LEDA COSMIDES: [269]"THE ARCHITECTURE OF MOTIVATION" [269]
Recent research concerning the welfare of others, etc. affects not only how to think about certain emotions, but also overturns how most models of reciprocity and exchange, with implications about how people think about modern markets, political systems, and societies. What are these new approaches to human motivation?
Professor of Psychology and Co-director (with John Tooby) of Center for Evolutionary Psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara
Leda Cosmides's [343]Edge [343] Bio Page [343]
[Continue to Leda Cosmides's Edge Master Class [269]]
MICHAEL GAZZANIGA: "NEUROSCIENCE AND JUSTICE [271]"
Asking the fundamental question of modern life. In an enlightened world of scientific understandings of first causes, we must ask: are we free, morally responsible agents or are we just along for the ride?
Neuroscientist; Professor of Psychology & Director, SAGE Center for the Study of Mind, University of California, Santa Barbara; Human: Who's In Charge? (forthcoming, November 15th)
Michael Gazzaniga's Edge Bio Page [272]
[Continue to Michael Gazzaniga's Edge Master Class [271]]
ELAINE PAGELS: "THE BOOK OF REVELATION: PROPHECY AND POLITICS [274]"
Why is religion still alive? Why are people still engaged in old folk takes and mythological stories — even those without rational and ethical foundations.
Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion, Princeton University; Author The Gnostic Gospels; Beyond Belief; and Revelations: Visions, Prophecy, and Politics in the Book of Revelation (forthcoming, March 6, 2012)
Elaine Pagels's Edge Bio Page [275]
[Continue to Elaine Pagels's Edge Master Class] [274]
"Open-minded, free ranging, intellectually playful ... an unadorned pleasure in curiosity, a collective expression of wonder at the living and inanimate world ... an ongoing and thrilling colloquium."— Ian McEwan in The Telegraph
EDGIES:
Stewart Brand [354], Biologist, Long Now Foundation; Author, Whole Earth Discipline
John Brockman, [3]Publisher & Editor, Edge; CEO, Brockman, Inc; Author, The Third Culture
Max Brockman [355], Literary Agent, Brockman, Inc; Editor, Future Science: Essays From The Cutting Edge
George Dyson [242], [242] Science Historian; Author, Darwin Among the Machines
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J [336]ennifer Jacquet [336], Postdoctoral Researcher, Fisheries Centre/Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia
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Jaron Lanier [356], Computer Scientist, Musician; Author, You Are Not A Gadget
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Salar Kamangar [23], CEO. You Tube; Google's ninth employee; Former VP. Google Web Applications
Katinka Matson [358], Cofounder, Edge; President, Brockman, Inc.; Artist, katinkamatson.com [359]
Sean Parker [360], The Founders Fund; CoFounder, Napster & CoFounder & Founding President, Facebook
Nicholas Pritzker [361], Hyatt Development Corporation
John Tooby [362], Founder, Field of Evolutionary Psychology; Co-Director, UC Santa Barbara's Center for Evolutionary Psychology
Anne Treisman [363], Research Psychologist, Princeton
PRESS ATTENDEES:
Benedict Carey [364], Journalist, New York Times
Jim Giles [365], News Correspondent, New Scientist
Greg Miller [366], News Correspondent, Science
Lucy Odling-See [367], News Correspondent, Nature
Eva Wisten [368], Journalist, Dagens Industri
Villa Miravalle at Spring Mountain [369]
The Edge Master Class 2011 was held at Villa Miravelle at Spring Mountain Vineyard in St. Helena, California.
"Built 1884 in Saint Helena, CA, by Mexican-American Tiburcio Parrott, the majestic residence dominates the surrounding vineyards and includes spires, wraparound verandas, a conservatory, a grand stone tower, massive front double doors with exquisite stained glass, and a six-story high cupola. Miravalle was designed by architect Albert Schroepfer, who had designed acclaimed structures at Inglenook and Beringer Wineries, and San Fransisco's Orpheum Theatre. ... Tiburcio died within ten years, and Miravalle remained empty for the next seventy. In 1974 Spring Mountain Vineyard and winery were established on the surrounding property."
The Vineyard was bought by Edge member Jacqui (Jacob) Eli Safra [64] in 1992, after which he consolidated several properties into the current 900-acre property, the largest contiguous vineyard in Napa. Safra, a Swiss investor, is a descendant of the Lebanon-Swiss Jewish Safra banking family. In addition to Spring Mountain Vineyards, his other investments include Encyclopædia Britannica [370] and Merriam-Webster [371]. The entire Edge community wishes to thank him for his thoughtfuness and generosity. And we wish to express our appreciation to General Manager George Peterson, and Customer Relationship Director Leah Smith for their help in organizing a memorable weekend.
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"We'd certainly be better off if everyone sampled the fabulous Edge symposium, which, like the best in science, is modest and daring all at once." — David Brooks, New York Times column [372]
Future Science, edited by Max Brockman 18 original essays by the brightest young minds in science: Kevin P. Hand [379] - Felix Warneken [380] - William McEwan [381] - Anthony Aguirre [382] -Daniela Kaufer [383] and Darlene Francis [384] - Jon Kleinberg [385] - Coren Apicella [386] - Laurie R. Santos [387] - Jennifer Jacquet [336] - Kirsten Bomblies [388] - Asif A. Ghazanfar [389] - Naomi I. Eisenberger [390]- Joshua Knobe [391] - Fiery Cushman [392] - Liane Young [393] - Daniel Haun [394] - Joan Y. Chiao [395]
"A fascinating and very readable summary of the latest thinking on human behaviour." — [More] [396]
"Cool and thought-provoking material. ... so hip." — Washington Post The Best of Edge: The Mind, edited by John Brockman 18 conversations and essays on the brain, memory, personality and happiness: Steven Pinker [268] - George Lakoff [399] - Joseph LeDoux [400] -Geoffrey Miller [401] - Steven Rose [402] - Frank Sulloway [403] - V.S. Ramachandran [244] - Nicholas Humphrey [404] - Philip Zimbardo [405] - Martin Seligman [406] -Stanislas Dehaene [309] - Simon Baron-Cohen [240] - Robert Sapolsky [307] - Alison Gopnik [407] - David Lykken [408] - Jonathan Haidt [292] For the past 15 years, literary-agent-turned-crusader-of-human-progress John Brockman has been a remarkable curator of curiosity, long before either "curator" or "curiosity" was a frivolously tossed around buzzword. His Edge.org [409] has become an epicenter of bleeding-edge insight across science, technology and beyond, hosting conversations with some of our era's greatest thinkers (and, once a year, asking them some big questions [410]). Last month marked the release of The Mind [411], the first volume in The Best of Edge Series, presenting eighteen provocative, landmark pieces—essays, interviews, transcribed talks—from the Edge archive. The anthology reads like a who's who ... across psychology, evolutionary biology, social science, technology, and more. And, perhaps equally interestingly, the tome—most of the materials in which are available for free online—is an implicit manifesto for the enduring power of books as curatorial capsules of ideas. "(A) treasure chest ... A coffer of cutting-edge contemporary thought, The Mind contains the building blocks of tomorrow's history book—whatever medium they may come in—and invites a provocative peer forward as we gaze back at some of the most defining ideas of our time." — [More] [398] The Best of Edge: Culture, edited by John Brockman
17 conversations and essays on art, society, power and technology: Daniel C. Dennett [413] - Jared Diamond [414] - Denis Dutton [415] - Brian Eno [254] -Stewart Brand [354] - George Dyson [242] - David Gelernter [416] - Karl Sigmund [417] - Jaron Lanier [356] - Nicholas A. Christakis [30] - Douglas Rushkoff [418]- Evgeny Morozov [419] - Clay Shirky [420] - W. Brian Arthur [421] - W. Daniel Hillis [20] - Richard Foreman [305] - Frank Schirrmacher [422] We've already ravished The Mind [423] -- the first in a series of anthologies by Edge.org [409] editor John Brockman, curating 15 years' worth of the most provocative thinking on major facets of science, culture, and intellectual life. On its trails comes Culture: Leading Scientists Explore Societies, Art, Power, and Technology [424]—a treasure chest of insight true to the promise of its title. From the origin and social purpose of art to how technology shapes civilization to the Internet as a force of democracy and despotism, the 17 pieces exude the kind of intellectual inquiry and cultural curiosity that give progress its wings. (A) lavish cerebral feast ... one of this year's most significant time-capsules of contemporary thought." —[More] [412] |
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The idea that the brain is somehow fixed in early childhood, which was an idea that was very strongly believed up until fairly recently, is completely wrong. There's no evidence that the brain is somehow set and can't change after early childhood. In fact, it goes through this very large development throughout adolescence and right into the 20s and 30s, and even after that it's plastic forever, the plasticity is a baseline state, no matter how old you are. That has implications for things like intervention programs and educational programs for teenagers.
I seem to be saying two things that contradict each other. On the one hand, we trust scientific knowledge, on the other hand, we are always ready to modify in-depth part of our conceptual structure about the world. But there is no contradiction, because the idea of a contradiction comes from what I see as the deepest misunderstanding about science: the idea that science is about certainty. 
The self is something that is central to a lot of psychological questions and, in fact, a lot of psychologists have difficulty describing their work without positing the notion of a self. It's such a common daily, profound, indivisible experience for most of us. Some people do manage to achieve states of divided self or anatta, no self, they're really skilled Buddhists. But for the majority of us the self is a very compulsive experience. I happen to think it's an illusion and certainly the neuroscience seems to support that contention. Simply from the logical positions that it's very difficult to, without avoiding some degree of infinite regress, to say a starting point, the trail of thought, just the fractionation of the mind, when we see this happening in neurological conditions. The famous split-brain studies showing that actually we're not integrated entities inside our head, rather we're the output of a multitude of unconscious processes.
This is a hormone that has fascinated me. It's a small molecule that seems to be doing remarkable things. The variation we see in this hormone comes from a number of different sources. One of those sources is genes; many different genes can influence how much testosterone each of us produces, and I just wanted to share with you my fascination with this hormone, because it's helping us take the science of sex differences one step further, to try to understand not whether there are sex differences, but what are the roots of those sex differences? Where are they springing from? And along the way we’re also hoping that this is going to teach us something about those neuro-developmental conditions like autism, like delayed language development, which seem to disproportionately affect boys more than girls, and potentially help us understand the causes of those conditions.
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What we're missing now, on another level, is not just biology, but cosmology. People treat the digital universe as some sort of metaphor, just a cute word for all these products. The universe of Apple, the universe of Google, the universe of Facebook, that these collectively constitute the digital universe, and we can only see it in human terms and what does this do for us?
Why has cooperation, not competition, always been the key to the evolution of complexity?
