The bestselling author of Coming of Age in the Milky Way delivers fascinating essays on the human mind, the search for extraterrestrial (and thus nonhuman) intelligence, comet strikes as a source of species extinction, near-death experiences, apocalyptic prophecies, information theory, and the origin of laughter. Praise for The Mind's Sky "It is a joy to read The Mind's Sky. What a sense of humility in the face of mystery--the spirit of Ulysses, as Tennyson put it, determined 'to strive, to seek, to find and not to yield'--and sense of poetry too "--John Archibald Wheeler, physicist, Princeton University "A few chapters into this wonderful book I suddenly realized that I was taking wider views of my own mind's sky than I have enjoyed in a long time. Ferris illuminates (among other matters) the mysteries of laughter, nirvana, common sense, and Joe...
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