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f Health Sciences and Technology, Harvard-MIT; and co-author (with Ed Regis) of Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves. Daniel C. Dennett is University Professor and Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy and director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. He is th

rol, planning, estimation, learning, and cognitive science. Barely into her thirties herself, she has co-authored a number of papers with her veteran Berkeley colleague and mentor Stuart Russell which address various aspects of machine learning and the knotty problems of value alignment. She shares Stuart’

ces at UC Berkeley. She co-founded and serves on the steering committee for the Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) Lab and is a co-principal investigator in Berkeley’s Center for Human-Compatible AI. George Dyson is a historian of science and technology and the author of Baidarka: the Kayak, Darwin Among the Mach

f Health Sciences and Technology, Harvard-MIT; and co-author (with Ed Regis) of Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves. Daniel C. Dennett is University Professor and Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy and director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. He is th

rol, planning, estimation, learning, and cognitive science. Barely into her thirties herself, she has co-authored a number of papers with her veteran Berkeley colleague and mentor Stuart Russell which address various aspects of machine learning and the knotty problems of value alignment. She shares Stuart’

ces at UC Berkeley. She co-founded and serves on the steering committee for the Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) Lab and is a co-principal investigator in Berkeley’s Center for Human-Compatible AI. George Dyson is a historian of science and technology and the author of Baidarka: the Kayak, Darwin Among the Mach

rs in the global market place. Clients include Chris Anderson (Wired), Stewart Brand, Rodney Brooks, Nicholas Carr, George Church, Richard Dawkins, Daniel C. Dennett, Jared Diamond, George Dyson, Gerald Edelman, Michael Gazzaniga, Murray Gell- Mann, Neil Gershenfeld, Daniel Gilbert, Daniel Goleman, Brian Greene, A

urg, VA David Buss, Psychologist, U. of Texas, Austin William Calvin, Neuroscientist, U. of Washington Fritjof Capra, Director, Elmwood Institute, Berkeley, CA Sean Carroll, Physicist, CalTech Daniel Charles, Technology Correspondent, NPR Michael Castleman, Health and Medical Writer, San Francisco Ni

dson, Psychologist, University of Wisconsin Richard Dawkins, Evolutionary Biologist, Oxford University Stanislas Dehaene, Cognitive Scientist, Paris Daniel C. Dennett, Philosopher, Tufts Peter H. Diamandis M.D., Space Entrepreneur, X-Prize Foundation Jared Diamond, Scientist and author, UCLA (1998 Pulitzer Prize)

cientist, Carnegie Mellon Evgeny Morozov, Social Commentator, FOREIGN POLICY Sendhil Mullainathan, Economist, Harvard Richard Muller, Physicist, UC, Berkeley Richard Nisbett, Social Psychologist, U. of Michigan Martin Nowak, Mathematical Biologist, Harvard Tim O'Reilly, Founder, O'Reilly Media Svante Paa

of science and religion? There are at least three possible answers. One might be the new atheism exemplified by the writings of Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens. I In this approach, the alleged defective thinking of the world religions is exposed, and a worldvicw and

lls, Atheist universe: The thinking person's answer to References Christian fundamentalism. 1. D. J. Boorstin, The Discoverers. (Ulysses Press, Berkeley, CA, 2004). (Random House., New York, 1983). 9. J. H. Lesher, Xenophanes: Fragments. (University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1992). EFTA_R1_01

cience seem to go hand in hand; each field can propel the other. 132 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016935 Many evolutionary scientists, and such philosophers as Daniel Dennett, have pointed out that the human brain is the result of billions of years of evolution.*°> Human intelligence is not the special characteristic we th

that she treats them coldly, as if they were mere laboratory animals. They appear to revel in her company, and in the blinking, thrumming toys in her Berkeley lab. For years after her own children had outgrown it, she kept a playpen in her office. Her investigations into just how we learn, and the parallel

cience seem to go hand in hand; each field can propel the other. 132 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016352 Many evolutionary scientists, and such philosophers as Daniel Dennett, have pointed out that the human brain is the result of billions of years of evolution.*°> Human intelligence is not the special characteristic we th

that she treats them coldly, as if they were mere laboratory animals. They appear to revel in her company, and in the blinking, thrumming toys in her Berkeley lab. For years after her own children had outgrown it, she kept a playpen in her office. Her investigations into just how we learn, and the parallel

tion of science and religion? There are at least three possible answers. One might be the new atheism exemplified by the writings of Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens. In this approach, the alleged defective thinking of the world religions is exposed, and a worldview and way of

ything. (Hachette Book Group, New York, 2007). D. Mills, Atheist universe: The thinking person’s answer to Christian fundamentalism. (Ulysses Press, Berkeley, CA, 2004). J. H. Lesher, Xenophanes: Fragments. (University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1992). HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021262 From Selfish Genes to Social