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Contributor(s): Lee Smolin, Martin Rees, J. Doyne Farmer, Roger Schank, W. Daniel Hillis, Nicholas Humphrey, Paul Davies, Steve Jones, Richard Dawkins, Daniel C. Dennett, Murray Gell-Mann, Stephen Jay Gould