{"id":1356,"date":"2011-02-02T02:08:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T02:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/02\/edge-world-question-2011-what-scientific-concept-would-improve-everybodys-cognitive-toolkit\/"},"modified":"2011-02-02T02:08:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T02:08:00","slug":"edge-world-question-2011-what-scientific-concept-would-improve-everybodys-cognitive-toolkit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/02\/edge-world-question-2011-what-scientific-concept-would-improve-everybodys-cognitive-toolkit\/","title":{"rendered":"EDGE World Question 2011: "What scientific concept would improve everybody’s cognitive toolkit?""},"content":{"rendered":"

EDGE World Question 2011: “What scientific concept would improve everybody’s cognitive toolkit?”<\/a>: “\"kmscan725.jpg\"<\/p>\n

Each year, \u00fcber-big-think-literary-agent<\/a> and EDGE<\/a> founder John Brockman<\/a> poses a question<\/a>, and collects and publishes the answers. This year:<\/p>\n

\nWHAT SCIENTIFIC CONCEPT WOULD IMPROVE EVERYBODY’S COGNITIVE TOOLKIT?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The term ‘scientific’is to be understood in a broad sense as the most reliable way of gaining knowledge about anything, whether it be the human spirit, the role of great people in history, or the structure of DNA. A ‘scientific concept’ may come from philosophy, logic, economics, jurisprudence, or other analytic enterprises, as long as it is a rigorous conceptual tool that may be summed up succinctly (or ‘in a phrase’) but has broad application to understanding the world. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2022
My response to the EDGE 2011 Question is here<\/a> (‘Ambient Memory And The Myth Of Neutral Observation’). <\/p>\n

\u2022 Here is the index<\/a> of all participants, more than 150 of them, including Brian Eno<\/a>, J. Craig Venter<\/a>, George Dyson<\/a>, Kevin Kelly<\/a>, Clay Shirky<\/a>, Evgeny Morozov<\/a>, Linda Stone<\/a>, and<\/p>\n

Richard Dawkins<\/a> (who will be returning soon as a Boing Boing guestblogger, I’m happy to report!).<\/p>\n

\u2022 News coverage<\/a> so far includes: The Atlantic<\/a>, Wired UK<\/a>, New York Times<\/a>,
Sueddeutsche Zeitung
<\/a>, Newsweek<\/a>, Die Welt<\/a>, The Guardian
<\/a>, Publico<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(Image: RUDBECKIA<\/em>, Katinka Matson)<\/em><\/p>\n

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