Wednesday, January 4, 2006
The Edge has posted answers to the 2006 Edge question, "What is your most dangerous idea?" Many of the responders (Susan Blackmore, Paul Bloom, Rodney Brooks, Keith Devlin, John Horgan, Todd E. Feinberg, Thomas Metzinger, John Allen Paulos, V.S. Ramachandran, and probably others) offer something along the lines of the idea that there are no souls and no God, everything is a materialistic accident. The response by Sam Harris is a pretty good summary of his book The End of Faith; if you read the response you can skip the book. So far my favorite response is from Steven Strogatz, who is, of course, an applied mathematician.
