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" The third culture / "
by John Brockman
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BL
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704649
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b526838
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| Main Entry
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Brockman, John,1941-
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The third culture /\ by John Brockman
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| Edition Statement
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First Touchstone edition
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Simon & Schuster,, 1996
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, ©1995
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413 pages ;; 22 cm
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| ISBN
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0684823446
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [389]-397) and index
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| Contents
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A package of information / George C. Williams -- The pattern of life's history / Stephen Jay Gould -- A survival machine / Richard Dawkins -- Biology is just a dance / Brian Goodwin -- Why is there so much genetic diversity? / Steve Jones -- A battle of words / Niles Eldredge -- Gaia is a tough bitch / Lynn Margulis -- Smart machines / Marvin Minsky -- Information is surprises / Roger Schank -- Intuition pumps / Daniel C. Dennett -- The thick moment / Nicholas Humphrey -- The emergent self / Francisco Varela -- Language is a human instinct / Steven Pinker --
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Consciousness involves noncomputable ingredients / Roger Penrose -- An ensemble of universes / Martin Rees -- A universe in your backyard / Alan Guth -- A theory of the whole universe / Lee Smolin -- The synthetic path / Paul Davies -- Plectices / Murray Gell-Mann -- Order for free / Stuart Kauffman -- A dynamical pattern / Christopher G. Langton -- The second law of organization / J. Doyne Farmer -- Close to the singularity / W. Daniel Hillis
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Intellectuals, Interviews
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Science and the humanities
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Scientists, Interviews
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Q141.B846 1996
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