THIS EXPLAINS EVERYTHING : Deep, Beautiful, And Elegant Theories Of How The World Works
Language: English Publication details: New York HarperCollins 2013/01/01Edition: 1Description: 432ISBN:- 9780062230171
- Science
- Explanation
- Contents:- Evolution by Means of Natural Selection-Life is a Digital Code-Redundancy Reduction and Pattern Recognition-The Power of Absurdity-How Apparent Finality Can Emerge-The Overdue Demise of Monogamy-Boltzmanns Explanation of the Second Law of Thermodynamics-The Dark Matter of the Mind-There are More Things in Heaven and Earth than are Dreamt of in your Philosophy-An Unresolved(and Therefore Unbeautiful)Reaction to the Edge Question-Ptolemys Universe-Quasi-Elegance-Mathematical Object of Natural Object ?-Simplicity-Simplicity Itself-Einstein Explains why Gravity is Universal-Evolutionary Genetics and the Conflicts of Human Social Life-The Faurie-Raymond Hypothesis-Group Polarization-The Price Equation-Unconscious Inferences-Snowflakes and the Multiverse-Einsteins Photons-Go Small-Why is Our World Comprehensible-Alfvens Cosmos-Our Universe Grew Like a Baby-Kepler et al. and the Nonexistent Problem-How Incompatible Worldviews can coexist-Impossible Inexactness-The Next Level of Fundamental Matter-Observers Observing-V.S.Ramachandran-Genes, Claustrum, and Consciousness-Overlapping Solutions-Our Bounded Rationality-Swarm Intelligence-Language and Natural Selection-Commitment-Tit for Tat-True or False : Beauty Is Truth-Eratosthenes and the Modular Mind-Dan Sperbers Explabnation of Culture-Metarepresentations Explain Human Uniqueness-Why the Human Mind May Seem to Have an Elegant Explanation Even If it Doesn't-Fitness Landscapes-On Oceans and Airport Security-Plate Tectonics Elegantly Validates continental Drift-Why some Sea Turtles Migrate-A hot Young Earth : Unquestionably Beautiful and stunningly wrong-sexual-conflict theory-The seeds of Historical dominance-The Importance of Individuals-Subjective Enviornment-My Favourity Annoying Elegant Explanation : Quantum Theory-Einstein's Revenge : The New Geometric Quantum-What Time is it-Realism and other Metaphysical Half-Truths-All We Need is Help-inthe Beginning is the Theory-Thompson on 'development-Ho Do You Get from a Lobster to a Cat ? Germs Cause Disease-Dirt is Matter out of Place-Information is the Resolutopm pf Uncertainty-Everything is the way it is Because it Got That Way-The Idea of Emergence-Frames of Reference-Epigengetics-The Missing Link-Flocking Behavior in Birds-Lemons ARe Fast-Boscovichs Explanation of Atomic Forces-Birds are the Direct Descendants of Dinosaurs-Complexity out of Simplicity-Russells Theory of Descriptions-Feynmans LIfeguard-The Limits of Intuition-The Higgs Mechanism-The Mind Think in Embodies Metaphors-Metaphors are in the Mind-The Pigenhole Principle-Why Programs have Bugs-Cagepatterns-The True Rotational Symmetry of Space-The Pigeonhole Principle Revisited-Moores Law-Cosmic Complexity-The Gaia Hypothesis-The Continuity Equations-Pascals Wager-Evolutionarily Stable Strategies-The Collingride Dilemma-Trusting Trust-It Just is?-Subverting Biology-Sex at your Finertips-Time Perspective Theory : Philip Zimbardo-The Principle of Inertia-Lee Smolin
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About the Book
Drawn from the cutting-edge frontiers of science, This Explains Everything will revolutionize your understanding of the world.
What is your favorite deep, elegant, or beautiful explanation
This is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org ("The world's smartest website"-The Guardian), posed to the world's most influential minds. Flowing from the horizons of physics, economics, psychology, neuroscience, and more, This Explains Everything presents 150 of the most surprising and brilliant theories of the way of our minds, societies, and universe work.
Jared Diamond on biological electricity • Nassim Nicholas Taleb on positive stress • Steven Pinker on the deep genetic roots of human conflict • Richard Dawkins on pattern recognition • Nobel Prize-winning physicist Frank Wilczek on simplicity • Lisa Randall on the Higgs mechanism • BRIAN Eno on the limits of intuition • Richard Thaler on the power of commitment • V. S. Ramachandran on the "neural code" of consciousness • Nobel Prize winner ERIC KANDEL on the power of psychotherapy • Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on "Lord Acton's Dictum" • Lawrence M. Krauss on the unification of electricity and magnetism • plus contributions by Martin J. Rees • Kevin Kelly • Clay Shirky • Daniel C. Dennett • Sherry Turkle • Philip Zimbardo • Lee Smolin • Rebecca Newberger Goldstein • Seth Lloyd • Stewart Brand • George Dyson • Matt Ridley
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