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If you own this book, you can mail it to our address below. Borrow Listen. Want to Read. Download for print-disabled. Check nearby libraries Library. Share this book Facebook. An absolute ceases to be an absolute the moment it is defined, and that includes the concept of "truth". Horgan is absolutely right! A human mind created by means of evolution can never contemplate a system of reasoning that is both.
There is your universal truth about science and philosophy. If you want real truth, I'll have to explain it to ALL of you. The human race has not corrected enough mistakes in the last years to advance basic science at all. Horgan seems to be the only one who knows this.
Leave your intellectual inertia behind and read it again. This time, try and understand it. These are the world's greatest minds he interviewed, and they haven't a clue. If Horgan were serious, then this book would evidence only a lack of imagination. But one or two passages, unless plagiarized, suggest that the author is sufficiently knowledgeable and intelligent that he can hardly be thought to believe what he proposes. True, he quotes scientists whose statements appear to support his view, but he must have omitted everything and everyone else who might suggest otherwise.
There is a story, untrue, that someone suggested a hundred years ago that the patent office should be shut down because everything already had been invented. Why does this book remind me of that? As long as we exist, it exists. That's how the argument goes. But longtime Scientific American writer John Horgan disagrees. Applying the scientific method to war leads Horgan to a radical conclusion: biologically speaking, we are just as likely to be peaceful as violent.
War is not preordained, and furthermore, it should be thought of as a solvable, scientific problem—like curing cancer. But war and cancer differ in at least one crucial way: whereas cancer is a stubborn aspect of nature, war is our creation.
Horgan argues for a far-reaching paradigm shift with profound implications for policy students, ethicists, military men and women, teachers, philosophers, or really, any engaged citizen. There are no reviews yet.
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