What Have You Changed Your Mind About?

When thinking changes your mind, that's philosophy.
When God changes your mind, that's faith.
When facts change your mind, that's science.

The feature article in the current (2008-01-30) eSkeptic email newsletter is Michael Shermer's Response to the Annual Edge.org Question “What Have You Changed Your Mind About? Why?” Shermer's response concludes:

I have thus changed my mind about this theory of human nature in its extreme form. Human nature is more evolutionarily determined, more cognitively irrational, and more morally complex than I thought.

See the Edge Annual Question - 2008 to see read what 164 other contributers have changed their minds about, including:

• J. Craig Venter: The importance of doing something now about the environment.

• Nassim Nicholas Taleb: The Irrelevance of "Probablility"

• Ray Kurtzweil: SETI

• W. Daniel Hillis: Try the Experiment Yourself
  

The most recent Annual Questions have been: What are you optimistic about? (2007); What is your dangerous idea? (2006); What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it? (2005). All of the annual questions and responses (back t0 1998) may be found at the Edge World Question Center.