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WHAT IS YOUR DANGEROUS IDEA? – if you’re looking to waste a day, this is a good place to do it. Various thinkers have been asked to posit their dangerous idea. The resulting work is posted on this site. Be prepared for an exciting, infuriating, and frustrating article! From the site: “Something radically new is in the air: new ways of understanding physical systems, new ways of thinking about thinking that call into question many of our basic assumptions. A realistic biology of the mind, advances in evolutionary biology, physics, information technology, genetics, neurobiology, psychology, engineering, the chemistry of materials: all are questions of critical importance with respect to what it means to be human. For the first time, we have the tools and the will to undertake the scientific study of human nature.”