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From: jeffrey epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 8:47 PM To: John Brockman Subject: Re: The Edge Annual Question 2012 - Invitation (Confidential) Mathematics ideals are universal truths, biology is intrinsically based in=deception . Predators in search of free energy, would be able to decipher a=d consume, if it weren't couched in a multi layered encrypted form . Even s=lf deception acts as a defensive strategy. More later Sorry for all the typos .Sent from my iPhone On Dec 14, 2011, at 3:05 PM, John Brockman < wrote: > To: Paul Allen, Jeff Bezos, Sergey Brin. Hubert Burda, Steve Case. > John Do=rr, Jeffrey Epstein, Tony Fadell, Bill Gates, Danny Hillis, > Maja Hoffman, B=II Joy, Salar Kamangar, Dean Kamen, Vinod Khosla, > Marissa Mayer, Kary Mulli= Elon Musk, Nathan Myhrvold, Pierre Omidyar, > Larry Page, Sean Parker, Jean P=gozzi, Nick Pritzker, Miuccia Prada, > Eric Schmidt, Jacqui Safra, Ricardo Sa=inas Pilego, Charles Simonyi, > Jeff Skoll, Craig Venter, Jimmy Wales, Evan W=Iliams, Mark Zuckerberg > Re: The EDGE Annual Question 2012 - Invitation to participate > In the summer of 2009, in a talk at the Bristol (UK) Festival of Ideas, Fre=man Dyson articulated a vision for the future. He referenced "The Age Of Wo=der", by Richard Holmes, in which the first Romantic Age described by Holme= was centered on chemistry and poetry, while Dyson pointed out that this ne= age is dominated by computational biology. Its leaders, he noted, include "=iology wizards" Kary Mullis, Craig Venter, medical engineer Dean Kamen; and="computer wizards" Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and Charles Simonyi. He poin=ed out that the nexus for this intellectual activity — the Lunar So=iety for the 21st century — is centered around the activities of ED=E. > Dyson continued to articulate his vision for a new age of biology in a rel=ted review inNew York Review of Books in which he wrote: "...a new generati=n of artists, writing genomes as fluently as Blake and Byron wrote verses, m=ght create an abundance of new flowers and fruit and trees and birds to enr=ch the ecology of our planet. Most of these artists would be amateurs, but trey would be in close touch with science, like the poets of the earlier Age o= Wonder. The new Age of Wonder might bring together wealthy entrepreneurs l=ke Venter and Kamen ... and a worldwide community of gardeners and farmers a=d breeders, working together to make the planet beautiful as well as fertil=, hospitable to hummingbirds as well as to humans." > So, along these lines, who can best articulate the important issues > questi=ns we face today than the very people who are, through their > ideas and entr=preneurial zeal, changing the very nature of reality > itself. Here's the 201= Annual Question. Before sending it out widely > to the list, it's useful to s=ed the project with a dozen or so > interesting responses to provide examples=and set a high bar. Even > better, to inspire. How about it?? Hope to hear fr=m you. JB THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER EFTA_R1_01357837 EFTA02364089 • 2012: WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE DEEP, ELEGANT, OR BEAUTIFUL EXPLANATI=N? > http://edge.oreannual-question/what-is-your-favorite-deep-elegant-or- > beau=iful-explanation&view=draft > - - > PRESS EMBARGO UNTIL PUBLICATION (12am EST, Sunday, January 15th). DO > NOT C=TE OR CIRCULATE > "We'd certainly be better off if everyone sampled the fabulous EDG= symposium, which, like the best in science, is modest and daring all at on=e." > — David Brooks, THE NEW YORK TIMES > Scientists' greatest pleasure comes from theories that derive the solution=to some deep puzzle from a small set of simple principles in a surprising w=y. These explanations are called "beautiful" or "elegant". Historical examp=es are Kepler's explanation of complex planetary motions as simple ellipses= Bohr's explanation of the periodic table of the elements in terms of electron shells, and Watson and Crick's double helix. Einstein famously said that=he did not need experimental confirmation of his general theory of relativi=y because it "was so beautiful it had to be true." The EDGE Question 2012 • WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE DEEP, ELEGANT, OR BEAUTIFUL EXPLANATION? > Since this question is about explanation, answers may embrace scientific t=inking in the broadest sense: as the most reliable way of gaining knowledge=about anything, including other fields of inquiry such as philosophy, mathe=atics, economics, history, political theory, literary theory, or the human s=irit. The only requirement is that some simple and non-obvious idea explain=some diverse and complicated set of phenomena. > [Thanks to Steven Pinker for suggesting this year's EDGE Question and > to S=ewart Brand, Kevin Kelly, and George Dyson for their ongoing > advice and sup=ort.] > - > "Open-minded, free ranging, intellectually playful ... an unadorned pleasu=e in curiosity, a collective expression of wonder at the living and inanima=e world ... an ongoing and thrilling colloquium." > —Ian McEwan in THE TELEGRAPH 2 EFTA_R1_01357838 EFTA02364090 > SUBMITTING ESSAYS: Email as text or attached Word file to me (brockman@edg=.org). > DUE DATE: 5pm, Thursday, January 12th > PUBLICATION DATE: 12am EST, Sunday, January 15th > URL: Essays will be posted at this draft URL (not visible to search engine=). Please keep confidential. > PRESS EMBARGO: Until publication. Do not cite or circulate. > ----_ > EDITORIAL MARCHING ORDERS > Of course, your own explanations are deep, elegant, and beautiful. But giv= it a rest for this exercise and please avoid citing your own theory, idea,=explanation. Also, think of examples that are not completely obvious—=e don't want a hundred people nominating natural selection, or relativity, o= Turing machines. > Say something new, true, and interesting based on your own experience, in 1=000 words or less. > Go deeper than the news. Tell us something we don't know. This is not a pu=ely scientific question: this is question about our culture and ourselves. T=e ideas we present on EDGE can offer a new set of metaphors to describe our=elves, our minds, the way we think, the world, and all of the things we kno= in it. > As usual, no politics ("Democrat" "Republican") or politicians ("Obama" "R=mney" "Clinton" "Gingrich", etc.). No editorials, Op-eds, opinion pieces, f=ippancy. No ad hominem comments. No self-promotion: no referencing your boo=s, papers, courses. No "selling from the stage", pushing your well-known ag=nda. No footnotes, credits, or hyperlinks in the text: stay on the page. No=anecdotes about spouses, significant others, kids, family pets. Write a sta=d-alone piece: don't respond to the pieces of other contributors already po=ted. > This is the annual opportunity for the EDGE community to give something ba=k, to provide an important public service, to make a statement by presentin= uncompromisingly sophisticated science-minded thinking to a wide global au=ience. Be imaginative, exciting, compelling, inspiring. Tell a great story.=Make an argument that makes a difference. Amaze and delight. Surprise us! > ----_ > TO THE EDGE PRESS LIST > Last year's EDGE Question ("What Scientific Concept Would Improve > Everybod='s Cognitive Toolkit?" - http://goo.gl/bEzNP - generated 165 > essays (115,00= words) and received global press attention - > http://goo.gl/Ygxs7 > For some background on how the EDGE Annual Questions comes together, > check=out "A Big Question", an article I wrote for the Nieman 3 EFTA_R1_01357839 EFTA02364091 > Foundation in 2010 -=http://goo.gl/udnZg We expect at least as many > contributions this year. Please feel free use u= to 1,500 words of > text (gratis) without further permission, provided that:=> > (a) EDGE and its URL (www.edge.org) are mentioned in the first > paragraph o= your print and online piece; and > (b) a hyperlink to the EDGE home page (http://www.edge.org) is provided in=the first paragraph of your online edition. > Edge Foundation, Inc. is a nonprofit private operating foundation under Se=tion 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. > Happy New Year! > John Brockman > Editor & Publisher > > ----_ > •It's ever more delectable that EDGE-the network of prominent scientists an= intellectuals— has worked against the reciprocal ignorance of lite=ary cultures and sciences of each other. Successfully. If you take the algo=ithms developed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, which measure the value of I=nks, EDGE'S website ranks seven on a global scale of ten. THE NEW YORK TIME= ranks nine, eBay at eight. > — SUEDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG > ----_ <?xml version=.0" encoding=TF-8"b <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version=.0"> <dict> <key>date-last-viewed</key> <real>0.0</real> <key>date-received</key> <real>1323895630</real> <key>flags</key> <integer>8590195713</integer> <key>original-mailbox</key> <string>imap://jeevacation@imap.gmail.com/%5BGmail%5D/All%20Mail</string> <key>remote-id</key> <string>195822</string> </dict> </plist> 4 EFTA_R1_01357840 EFTA02364092