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100 1 _aBrooks, Michael,
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222 _aGeneral Collection
245 1 0 _aAt the Edge of Uncertainty :
_b11 Discoveries taking Science by Surprise
_cMichael Brooks.
260 _aLondon:
_bProfile Books Ltd.,
_c2014.
300 _a290 pages ;
_c23 cm
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 262-281) and index.
505 0 _aTriumph of the zombie killers: the science of consciousness has risen from the grave -- The 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.
520 _aExamines controversial new developments in biology, cosmology, and other scientific fields that may radically change current understandings of these subjects.
650 0 _aDiscoveries in science.
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