John Horgan es un periodista científico cuyo trabajo explora a menudo las intrincadas conexiones entre la comprensión científica y las profundas preguntas de la existencia humana. Sus escritos han aparecido en publicaciones líderes a nivel mundial, y a través de sus ensayos, impulsa a los lectores a considerar los límites de la ciencia y su impacto en nuestra percepción del mundo. El periodismo de investigación de Horgan profundiza en la esencia del descubrimiento científico y sus implicaciones.
These papers are from a meeting at University College Cork, Ireland, at which terrorism experts from academia and law enforcement presented and dicussed their views on future developments in terrorism.
This book takes readers to meet the presumed experts on how the brain works, but demonstrates that we cannot absolutely understand what is happening inside our heads, that science has achieved virtually nothing in explaining the mind and that science cannot define what makes us human.
Facing the Limits of Knowledge in the Twilight of the Scientific Age
As a writer for Scientific American, the author is regularly afforded the opportunity of interviewing comtemporary scientists such as Richard Dawkins, Murray Gell-Mann, Stephen Hawking and Noam Chomsky. In this work, he discusses with them whether all the big scientific questions have been answered and all the knowledge worth knowing become known. Will there eventually be a theory of everything that signals the end? In a time where scientific rationality is under fire from many quarters, Horgan provides an overview of current scientific enterprise as he discusses God, Star Trek, superstrings, quarks, consciousness and many other topics.