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This Explains Everything 2013

1. Contents

2. PREFACE: The Edge Question, by John Brockman

3. Evolution by Means of Natural Selection

4. Life Is a Digital Code

5. Redundancy Reduction and Pattern Recognition

6. The Power of Absurdity

7. How Apparent Finality Can Emerge

8. The Overdue Demise of Monogamy

9. Boltzmann’s Explanation of the Second Law of Thermodynamics

10. The Dark Matter of the Mind

11. “There Are More Things in Heaven and Earth . . . Than Are Dreamt of in Your Philosophy.”

12. An Unresolved (and Therefore Unbeautiful) Reaction to the Edge Question

13. Ptolemy’s Universe

14. Quasi-Elegance

15. Mathematical Object or Natural Object?

16. Simplicity

17. Simplicity Itself

18. Einstein Explains Why Gravity Is Universal

19. Evolutionary Genetics and the Conflicts of Human Social Life

20. The Faurie-Raymond Hypothesis

21. Group Polarization

22. The Price Equation

23. Unconscious Inferences

24. Snowflakes and the Multiverse

25. Einstein’s Photons

26. Go Small

27. Why Is Our World Comprehensible?

28. Alfvén’s Cosmos

29. Our Universe Grew Like a Baby

30. Kepler et al. and the Nonexistent Problem

31. How Incompatible Worldviews Can Coexist

32. Impossible Inexactness

33. The Next Level of Fundamental Matter?

34. Observers Observing

35. Genes, Claustrum, and Consciousness

36. Overlapping Solutions

37. Our Bounded Rationality

38. Swarm Intelligence

39. Language and Natural Selection

40. Commitment

41. Tit for Tat

42. True or False: Beauty Is Truth

43. Eratosthenes and the Modular Mind

44. Dan Sperber’s Explanation of Culture

45. Metarepresentations Explain Human Uniqueness

46. Why the Human Mind May Seem to Have an Elegant Explanation Even If It Doesn’t

47. Fitness Landscapes

48. On Oceans and Airport Security

49. Plate Tectonics Elegantly Validates Continental Drift

50. Why Some Sea Turtles Migrate

51. A Hot Young Earth: Unquestionably Beautiful and Stunningly Wrong

52. Sexual-Conflict Theory

53. The Seeds of Historical Dominance

54. The Importance of Individuals

55. Subjective Environment

56. My Favorite Annoying Elegant Explanation: Quantum Theory

57. Einstein’s Revenge: The New Geometric Quantum

58. What Time Is It?

59. Realism and Other Metaphysical Half-Truths

60. All We Need Is Help

61. In the Beginning Is the Theory

62. Thompson on Development

63. How Do You Get from a Lobster to a Cat?

64. Germs Cause Disease

65. Dirt Is Matter Out of Place

66. Information Is the Resolution of Uncertainty

67. Everything Is the Way It Is Because It Got That Way

68. The Idea of Emergence

69. Frames of Reference

70. Epigenetics—the Missing Link

71. Flocking Behavior in Birds

72. Lemons Are Fast

73. Falling into Place: Entropy and the Desperate Ingenuity of Life

74. Why Things Happen

75. Why We Feel Pressed for Time

76. Why the Sun Still Shines

77. Boscovich’s Explanation of Atomic Forces

78. Birds Are the Direct Descendants of Dinosaurs

79. Complexity Out of Simplicity

80. Russell’s Theory of Descriptions

81. Feynman’s Lifeguard

82. The Limits of Intuition

83. The Higgs Mechanism

84. The Mind Thinks in Embodied Metaphors

85. Metaphors Are in the Mind

86. The Pigeonhole Principle

87. Why Programs Have Bugs

88. Cagepatterns

89. The True Rotational Symmetry of Space

90. The Pigeonhole Principle Revisited

91. Moore’s Law

92. Cosmic Complexity

93. The Gaia Hypothesis

94. The Continuity Equations

95. Pascal’s Wager

96. Evolutionarily Stable Strategies

97. The Collingridge Dilemma

98. Trusting Trust

99. It Just Is?

100. Subverting Biology

101. Sex at Your Fingertips

102. Why Do Movies Move?

103. Would You Like Blue Cheese with It?

104. Mother Nature’s Laws

105. The Oklo Pyramid

106. Kitty Genovese and Group Apathy

107. The Wizard of I

108. One Coincidence; Two Déjà Vus

109. Occam’s Razor

110. Deep Time

111. Placing Psychotherapy on a Scientific Basis: Five Easy Lessons

112. Transitional Objects

113. Natural Selection Is Simple but the Systems It Shapes Are Unimaginably Complex

114. How to Have a Good Idea

115. Out of the Mouths of Babes

116. The Beauty in a Sunrise

117. The Origin of Money

118. The Precession of the Simulacra

119. Time Perspective Theory

120. Developmental Timing Explains the Woes of Adolescence

121. Implications of Ivan Pavlov’s Great Discovery

122. Nature Is Cleverer Than We Are

123. Imposing Randomness

124. The Unification of Electricity and Magnetism

125. Furry Rubber Bands

126. The Principle of Inertia

127. Seeing Is Believing: From Placebos to Movies in Our Brain

128. The Discontinuity of Science and Culture

129. Hormesis Is Redundancy

130. The Beautiful Law of Unintended Consequences

131. We Are What We Do

132. Personality Differences: The Importance of Chance

133. Metabolic Syndrome: Cell Energy Adaptations in a Toxic World?

134. Death Is the Final Repayment

135. Denumerable Infinities and Mental States

136. Inverse Power Laws

137. How the Leopard Got His Spots

138. The Universal Algorithm for Human Decision Making

139. Lord Acton’s Dilemma

140. Fact, Fiction, and Our Probabilitic World

141. Elegant = Complex

142. Tinbergen’s Questions

143. The Universal Turing Machine

144. A Matter of Poetics

145. The Origins of Biological Electricity

146. Why the Greeks Painted Red People on Black Pots

147. Language As an Adaptive System

148. The Mechanism of Mediocrity

149. The Principle of Empiricism, or See for Yourself

150. We Are Stardust

151. Index

152. Acknowledgments

153. An Excerpt from The Last Unknowns

154. About the Author

155. Books by John Brockman

156. Back Ads

157. Copyright

158. About the Publisher