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Title: A narrow state of mind
Review: What a waste. Talking to all these highly intelligent people and framing them in such a narrow-minded structure. A more suitable subtitle would have been: "How John Horgan Borrowed Big Names to Spread his Limited Positivist View on the World". The book really tells more about the writer than about the people who have been interviewed. The conversations are flimsy, lack any depth and turn knowledgeable people into flat characters. Putting aside the issue of insights and content (Horgan just doesn't know his stuff, esp. not on philosophy) the book is not nice to read. The plot is predictable and rigid. Horgan's gospel is boring to read.
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