2007 : WHAT ARE YOU OPTIMISTIC ABOUT?
Felix Bloch Professor in Theoretical Physics, Stanford; Author, The Theoretical Minimum series
Physicist, Stanford University; Author, The Cosmic Landscape
Going Beyond Our Darwinian Roots
I am optimistic about the adaptability of the human brain to answer questions that evolution could not have designed it for. A brain that can rewire itself to visualize 4 dimensions, or the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, is clearly going way beyond the things that natural selection could have wired it for. It makes me optimistic that we may be able to go beyond our Darwinian roots in other ways.
