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The atom. The Big Bang. DNA. Natural selection. All are ideas that have revolutionized scienceand all were dismissed out of hand when they first appeared. The surprises havent stopped in recent years, and in At the Edge of Uncertainty, bestselling author Michael Brooks investigates the new wave of radical insights that are shaping the future of scientific discovery.
Brooks takes us to the extreme frontiers of what we understand about the world. He journeys from the observations that might rewrite our story of how the cosmos came to be, through the novel biology behind our will to live, and on to the physiological root of consciousness. Along the way, he examines how its time to redress the gender imbalance in clinical trials, explores how merging humans with other species might provide a solution to the shortage of organ donors, and finds out whether the universe really is like a computer or if the flow of time is a mere illusion.
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This edition first published in hardcover in the United States in 2015 by
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Copyright Michael Brooks, 2014
Extract from Little Gidding taken from Four Quartets, by T. S. Eliot (Faber & Faber, 2001). Reproduced by kind permission of Faber & Faber.
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A
Aaby, Peter
Academy of Medical Sciences
acetophenone
Adams, Douglas
Adams, Samuel
Ader, Robert
African-Americans
agouti gene
alpha
Alzheimers disease
American Association for the Advancement of Atheism
American Journal of Public Health
aminopterin
analog shift map
Angelman syndrome
Animal Intelligence (Romanes)
Animal Justice (Bekoff and Pierce)
Animal Personalities (Gosling and Mehta)
animals
blood transfusion
communication
consciousness
culture
emotions and feelings
in experiments
grief
human brains
hybrid embryos
interbreeding with humans
personality
teaching
xenotransplantation
anthropomorphism
antibiotics
Aplysia
Archer, John
Arnold, Kathryn
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Ascending and Descending (Escher)
Asimov, Isaac
Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness
atoms
ATP (adenosine triphosphate)
AuctionWeb
Augustine, St
Austria
Avatar
Axis of Alpha
Axis of Evil
B
Bacarelli, Andrea
bacteria
Baggio, Giovannella
Balaban, Evan
Barbour, Julian
Bartrop, Roger
Bateson, William
Baxter, Lewis
BBVA Foundation
BCG (Bacillus CalmetteGurin)
Becket, Thomas
Beethoven, Ludwig van
Bekoff, Mark
Bell, Alexander Graham
bereavement
Besso, Michele
Big Bang theory
birds
acquired characteristics
consciousness
grief
migration
personalities
teaching
birth weight
black holes
blood transfusion
blue jays
Boesch, Christophe
Boesch-Achermann, Hedwige
Bohr, Neils
Bolt, Usain
Boltzmann, Ludwig
Bolyai, Janos
Bonaparte, Princess Marie
Bondi, Hermann
Bor, Daniel
bower birds
Boyle, Robert
Bradbury, Ray
Brahms, Johannes
brain
and computers
consciousness
Human Brain Project
human-animal chimera
and immune system
memory
PET scans
and psychotherapy
sense of time
and taurine
Bronowski, Jacob
Brooks, Laura
Brukner, Caslav
Buhusi, Catalin
Buiting, Karin
Bygren, Lars Olov
C
Cabral, Amilcar
Calmette, Albert
Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness
cancer
and positive psychology
and stress
Cantor, Georg
cardiovascular disease
gender differences
and optimism
and Type A personality
widowhood effect
Carlin, George
Carmody, John
Cavanagh, Jonathan
Cavigelli, Sonia
Cell
cell hybrids
CERN
Chalmers, David
Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan
change-blindness
Cher
chickens
chimeras
ape-human hybrids
blood transfusion
brain
hybrid embryos
xenotransplantation
chimpanzees
culture
grief
interbreeding with humans
personality
chipmunks
Chipping Sparrows
Chopra, Deepak
Chorine, Victor
chromatin
Churchland, Patricia
Churchland, Paul
clinical trials
clocks
Club Brugge KV
cockroaches
Coga, Arthur
Cohen, Jon
Colby, Carol
colon cancer
coma patients
communication
computers
Human Brain Project
hypercomputer
Internet
Manchester Mark I machine
neural networks
Turing Test
Universal Turing Machine
universe as
Computing Machinery and Intelligence (Turing)
conditioning
consciousness
and brain damage
Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness
change-blindness
global neuronal workspace theory
Human Brain Project
information integration theory
machine intelligence
and pain
zombie hypothesis
Consciousness Explained (Dennett)
Copeland, Jack
Copernicus, Nicholaus
copycat suicides
coronary heart disease
gender differences
and optimism
and Type A personality
Cosmic Code, The (Pagel)
Cosmological Principle
Cowie, R. J.
Coyne, James
Crick, Francis
culture
animals
Culture in Whales and Dolphins (Martell and Whitehead)
Curie, Marie
cyanide
cybrids (cytoplasmic hybrids)
cytokines
D
Dahlstein, Oscar
Dantzer, Robert
Danzmann, Karsten
dark energy
Dark Flow
dark matter
Darwin, Charles
animals
and Lamarck
and Mller
mutations
slavery
Darwin, Sir Charles (grandson)
Darwins Sacred Cause (Desmond and Moore)
death
and consciousness
grief
and will to live
Death Takes a Holiday (Phillips)
Deathday and Birthday (Phillips)
delayed-choice experiment
Demiankenkov, Alexander
Dennett, Daniel
Denver, John
Denys, Jean-Baptiste
depression
Descartes, Ren
Descent of Man, The (Darwin)
Desmond, Adrian
Deutsch, David
digital physics
Dmytryk, Edward
DNA
cybrids
and methyl groups
unfolding
Does Time Really Slow Down During a Frightening Event? (Stetson)
dogs
blood transfusion
feelings
dolphins
drug trials
DTP (Diphtheria Tetanus Pertussis) vaccine
Dutch Hunger Winter
Dyson, Freeman
Dyson, Malcolm
E
Eagleman, David
eBay
Eddington, Arthur
Edison, Thomas
Edmonstone, John
Einstein, Albert
general theory of relativity
photoelectric effect
quantum theory
special theory of relativity
time
Einsteins Dreams (Lightman)
Ekert, Artur
electromagnetic theory
Elements (Euclid)
Eliot, T. S.
embryos, hybrid
Enigma machine
entanglement
epigenetics
birth weight
Bygren
Dutch Hunger Winter
folic acid
Lamarck
Waddington
Erhard, Werner
Escher, M. C.
Euclid
Experimental Cognitive Robot (XCR)
F
Fermilab
Feynman, Richard
film editing
Flanagan, Katie
flatness problem
Fliess, Wilhelm
Foundational Questions Institute
foveal saccades
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