John Brockman just published the email exchange between Freeman Dyson and Richard Dawkins regarding Dyson’s essay “Our Biotech Future”. This is in Edge 221 with no direct link — just scroll down to The Reality Club.
As part of this year’s Edge Event at Eastover Farm in Bethlehem, CT, I invited three of the participants—Freeman Dyson, George Church, and Craig Venter—to come up a day early, which gave me an opportunity to talk to Dyson about his abovementioned essay in New York Review of Books entitled “Our Biotech Future”.
I also sent the link to the essay to Richard Dawkins, and asked if he would would comment on what Dyson termed the end of “the Darwinian interlude”.
Early the next morning, prior to the all-day discussion (which also included as participants Robert Shapiro, Dimitar Sasselov, and Seth Lloyd) Dawkins emailed his thoughts which I read to the group during the discussion following Dyson’s talk. [NOTE: Dawkins asked me to make it clear that his email below “was written hastily as a letter to you, and was not designed for publication, or indeed to be read out at a meeting of biologists at your farm!”].
Now Dyson has responded and the exchange is below.
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