Does technology change who we are, and if so, in what ways? Can humanity transcend physical bodies and spaces? Will AI and genetic engineering help us reach new heights or will they unleash dystopias? How do we face mortality, our own and that of our warming planet? Questions like these--which are only growing more urgent--can be answered only by drawing on different kinds of knowledge and ways of knowing. They challenge us to bridge the divide between the sciences and the humanities and bring together perspectives that are too often kept apart.Great Minds Don't Think Alike presents conversations among leading scientists, philosophers, historians, and public intellectuals that exemplify openness to diverse viewpoints and the productive exchange of ideas. Pulitzer and Templeton Prize winners, MacArthur "genius" grant awardees, and other acclaimed writers and thinkers debate the big who we are, the nature of reality, science and religion, consciousness and materialism, and the mysteries of time. In so doing, they also inquire into how uniting experts from different areas of study to consider these topics might help us address the existential risks we face today. Convened and moderated by the physicist and author Marcelo Gleiser, these public dialogues model constructive engagement between the sciences and the humanities--and show why intellectual cooperation is necessary to shape our collective future.Contributors include David Chalmers and Antonio Damasio; Sean Carroll and B. Alan Wallace; Patricia Churchland and Jill Tarter; Rebecca Goldstein and Alan Lightman; Jimena Canales and Paul Davies; Ed Boyden and Mark O'Connell; Elizabeth Kolbert and Siddhartha Mukherjee; Jeremy DeSilva, David Grinspoon, and Tasneem Zehra Husain.

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Do all questions have answers? How much can we know about the world? Is there such a thing as an ultimate truth? To be human is to want to know, but what we are able to observe is only a tiny portion of what's "out there." In The Island of Knowledge, physicist Marcelo Gleiser traces our search for answers to the most fundamental questions of existence. In so doing, he reaches a provocative conclusion: science, the main tool we use to find answers, is fundamentally limited. These limits to our knowledge arise both from our tools of exploration and from the nature of physical reality: the speed of light, the uncertainty principle, the impossibility of seeing beyond the cosmic horizon, the incompleteness theorem, and our own limitations as an intelligent species. Recognizing limits in this way, Gleiser argues, is not a deterrent to progress or a surrendering to religion. Rather, it frees us to question the meaning and nature of the universe while affirming the central role of life and ourselves in it. Science can and must go on, but recognizing its limits reveals its true mission: to know the universe is to know ourselves. Telling the dramatic story of our quest for understanding, The Island of Knowledge offers a highly original exploration of the ideas of some of the greatest thinkers in history, from Plato to Einstein, and how they affect us today. An authoritative, broad-ranging intellectual history of our search for knowledge and meaning, The Island of Knowledge is a unique view of what it means to be human in a universe filled with mystery.

The Island of Knowledge: The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning

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Why discovering the limits to science may be the most powerful discovery of all. How much can we know about the world? In this audiobook physicist Marcelo Gleiser traces our search for answers to the most fundamental questions of existence, the origin of the universe, the nature of reality, and the limits of knowledge. In so doing he reaches a provocative conclusion: Science, like religion, is fundamentally limited as a tool for understanding the world. As science and its philosophical interpretations advance, we face the unsettling recognition of how much we don't know. Gleiser shows that by abandoning the dualistic model that divides reality into the known and the unknown, we can embark on a third way based on the acceptance of our limitations. Only then, he argues, will we be truly able to experience freedom, for to be free in an age of science we cannot turn science into a god. Gleiser ultimately offers an uplifting exploration of humanity's longing to conquer the unknown and of science's power to transform and inspire.

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Quanto podemos conhecer do mundo? Sera que podemos conhecer tudo? Ou sera que existem limites fundamentais para o que a ciencia pode explicar? Se estes limites existem, ate que ponto podemos compreender a natureza da realidade? Estas perguntas, e suas consequencias surpreendentes, sao o foco deste livro, um ensaio sobre como compreendemos o Universo e a nos mesmos.

A Ilha do Conhecimento (Em Portugues do Brasil)

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Gleiser, um dos grandes cientistas da atualidade, desmonta o maior mito da ciencia e da filosofia ocidentais: o de que a Natureza e regida pela perfeicao. O fisico brasileiro radicado nos EUA tambem contesta o discurso dos ateistas radicais, como Richard Dawkins, mostrando que a ciencia nao prova a inexistencia de Deus. Marcelo Gleiser e autor, entre outros volumes, de A danca do universo e de O Fim da Terra e do Ceu, ambos vencedores do premio Jabuti. E ambem articulista da Folha de Sao Paulo, participando frequentemente de documentarios para a TV no Brasil e no exterior. Apresentou uma serie, Poeira das estrelas, de grande audiencia no Fantastico.

Criacao Imperfeita: Cosmo, Vida e O Codigo Oculto (Em Portugues do Brasil)

O Caldeirao Azul. O Universo o Homem e Seu Espirito (Em Portugues do Brasil)

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Danca do Universo (Ed de Bolso) - Dancing Universe (Em Portugues do Brasil)

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