October 8, 1999

In Studying the Stubborn Mind, What Is the Upside?

By JOHN HORGAN

Several years ago, I approached a literary agent with a proposal for a sequel to my first book. In The End of Science, I had argued that the grand era of scientific discovery might be drawing to a close: Science might never again produce revelations as profound as quantum mechanics, relativity, the big bang, the theory of evolution, and DNA-mediated genetics. Some reviewers complained that of all current research, mind-related science has the most revolutionary

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