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Gianluigi Ricuperati
Writer; Essayist; Curator
Is the botscape going to force us to give up the use of the first-person singular nominative case personal pronoun, I?
Jennifer Richeson
Professor of Psychology, Yale University
What does justice feel like?
Matthew Ritchie
Artist
When will we develop a robust theory of Ontological Intelligence (OI)?
Siobhan Roberts
Director’s Visitor, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton; Author, Genius at Play and King of Infinite Space
Can a user-friendly computer proof assistant satisfy the mathematician’s desire for certainty without killing the pleasure?
Andrés Roemer
Co-creator, Ideas City; Author, Move UP: Why Some Cultures Advance While Others Don't
Can you prove it?
Phil Rosenzweig
Professor of Strategy and International Business at IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland; Author, Left Brain, Right Stuff
How can aims of individual liberty and economic efficiency be reconciled with aims of social justice and environmental sustainability?
Carlo Rovelli
Theoretical Physicist; Aix-Marseille University, in the Centre de Physique Théorique, Marseille, France; Author, Reality Is Not What It Seems
Is there an ultimate reality?
Douglas Rushkoff
Media Analyst; Documentary Writer; Author, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus
Was agriculture a wrong turn for civilization?
Karl Sabbagh
Writer and Television Producer; Author, Remembering Our Childhood: How Memory Betrays Us
How will humanity change in light of the increasing use of non-sexual methods of reproduction?
Todd C. Sacktor
Distinguished Professor of Physiology, Pharmacology, and Neurology, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center
Will there ever be a mechanistic scientific question that can be asked about the lone individuality of mental life, with its particular beginning, middle, and end?
Paul Saffo
Technology Forecaster; Consulting Associate Professor, Stanford University
Will we ever be able to predict earthquakes?
Eduardo Salcedo-Albaran
Philosopher; Director, Scientific Vortex, Inc.
Why do some people act inside the law, others outside, and others create the law?
Buddhini Samarasinghe
Molecular Biologist
Can technology tame evolution?
Scott Sampson
President & CEO, Science World British Columbia; Dinosaur paleontologist and science communicator; Author, How To Raise A Wild Child
How do ideas about biological evolution change once one species has control over the origin and extinction of all other species?
Laurie R. Santos
Professor of Psychology, Director, Comparative Cognition Laboratory and the Canine Cognition Center, Yale University
What cognitive capacities make humans so damn weird relative to all the other animals on the planet?
Robert Sapolsky
Neuroscientist, Stanford University; Author, Behave
Given the nature of life, the purposeless indifference of the universe, and our complete lack of free will, how is it that most people avoid ever being clinically depressed?
Dimitar D. Sasselov
Professor of Astronomy, Harvard University; Director, Harvard Origins of Life Initiative; Author, The Life of Super-Earths
What is the cosmic perspective to the future of life?
Roger Schank
CEO, Socratic Arts Inc.; John Evans Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, Psychology and Education, Northwestern University; Author, Make School Meaningful-And Fun!
Why is it so difficult to influence people’s belief systems for deeply held beliefs and so easy to manipulate belief systems when little is known about the subject?
René Scheu
Editor-in-chief, Feuilleton of Neue Zürcher Zeitung
Is a human brain capable of understanding a human brain?
Maximilian Schich
Associate Professor in Arts and Technology, The University of Texas at Dallas
What are the beautiful curiosities that artificial curiosities can't comprehend?
Simone Schnall
Director, Cambridge Embodied Cognition and Emotion Laboratory; Reader in Experimental Social Psychology and Fellow of Jesus College, University of Cambridge
Is immortality desirable?
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