A Glorious Accident

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Daniel C. Dennett
Daniel C. Dennett

Freeman Dyson
Freeman Dyson

Stephen Jay Gould
Stephen Jay Gould

Wim Kayzer
Wim Kayzer

Oliver Sacks
Oliver Sacks

Rupert Sheldrake
Rupert Sheldrake

Stephen Toulmin
Stephen Toulmin

George Page
George Page

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    One of the most interesting shows ever aired on public television was Wim Kayzer's interviews with six leading intellectuals who represented both the mainstream academic (Stephen J. Gould, Freeman Dyson and Stephen Toulmin) and more or less, as it were, "eccentric" outside the box groundbreaking intellectuals (Oliver Sacks and Rupert Sheldrake). Kayzer interviews each of them (and philosopher Daniel Dennett) individually and then has the entire group sit in a kind of round-table seminar that he moderates and lets the ideas fly.

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    1993-01-01

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    8.5

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