At the edge of uncertainty 11 discoveries taking science by surprise
Triumph of the zombie killers: the science of consciousness has risen from the graveThe crowded pinnacle: human beings are nothing special -- The chimera era: we are ready to make a whole new kind of creature -- The gene genie: there's more to life than DNA -- Different for girls: men and women...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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New York, NY
The Overlook Press
2015
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Triumph of the zombie killers: the science of consciousness has risen from the graveThe crowded pinnacle: human beings are nothing special -- The chimera era: we are ready to make a whole new kind of creature -- The gene genie: there's more to life than DNA -- Different for girls: men and women ail in very different ways -- Will to live: your mind has power in your body -- Correlations in creation: biology is putting quantum weirdness to work -- The reality machine: our universe is a computer, and we are the programmers -- Complicating the cosmos: our story of creation is far from complete -- Hypercomputing: Alan Turing had another good idea -- Clocking off: time is an illusion. Examines controversial new developments in biology, cosmology, and other scientific fields that may radically change current understandings of these subjects |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-281) and index |
| Beschreibung: | 292 S. 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781468310597 978-1-4683-1059-7 1468310593 1-4683-1059-3 |