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Yuri Milner
Physicist; Entrepreneur & Venture Capitalist; Science Philanthropist
If we discover another intelligent civilization, what should we ask them?
Read Montague
Neuroscientist; Director, Human Neuroimaging Lab and Computational Psychiatry Unit, Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute; Author, Why Choose This Book?: How We Make Decisions
Are feelings computable?
Dave Morin
Internet Entrepreneur; Angel Investor
Is the brain a computer or an antenna?
Lisa Mosconi
Associate Director of the Alzheimer’s Prevention Clinic at Weill Cornell Medical College /NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital; Adjunct faculty, NYU school of medicine; Author, Brainfood
Is there an evolutionary advantage to building societies that favor entertaining over understanding?
David G. Myers
Professor of Psychology, Hope College; Co-author, Psychology, 11th Edition
Does religious engagement promote or impede morality, altruism, and human flourishing?
Priyamvada Natarajan
Professor in Departments of Astronomy and Physics at Yale University, focusing on exotica in the universe-dark matter, dark energy, and black holes; Author, Mapping the Heavens
Are there limits to what we can know about the universe?
John Naughton
Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Cambridge; Director, Wolfson College Press Fellowship Programme; Columnist, the Observer; Author, From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg
Why do humans who possess or acquire unaccountable power over others invariably abuse it?
Randolph Nesse
Professor of Life Sciences, Director, Center for Evolution and Medicine, Arizona State University; Co-author (with George C. Williams), Why We Get Sick
In what situations does the capacity for low mood give a selective advantage?
Richard Nisbett
Theodore M. Newcomb Distinguished University Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan; Author, Mindware
What does the conscious mind do that is impossible for the unconscious mind?
Tor Nørretranders
Writer; Speaker; Thinker, Copenhagen, Denmark
What is the flow of information through human beings?
Michael I. Norton
Harold M. Brierley Professor of Business Administration, Director of Research, Harvard Business School; Co-author (with Elizabeth Dunn), Happy Money
Why do humans behave as though what can be known is finite?
Martin Nowak
Professor of Biology and Mathematics, Harvard University; Co-author, SuperCooperators
What is the purpose of it?
James J. O'Donnell
Classics Scholar, University Librarian, ASU; Author, Pagans
When will "human being" cease to be a meaningful category to speak of?
Tim O'Reilly
Founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media, Inc.; Author, WTF?: What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us
How can AI and other digital technologies help us create global institutions that we can trust?
Hans Ulrich Obrist
Curator, Serpentine Gallery, London; Editor: A Brief History of Curating; Formulas for Now; Co-author (with Rem Koolhas), Project Japan: Metabolism Talks
Does the future belong to non-human entities?
Steve Omohundro
Scientist, Self-Aware Systems; Co-founder, Center for Complex Systems Research
How did our sense of mathematical beauty arise?
Toby Ord
Philosopher, Oxford University; Research Fellow, Future of Humanity Institute
What can humanity do right now that will make the biggest difference over the next billion years?
Gloria Origgi
Philosopher and Researcher, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris; Author, Reputation: What it is and Why it Matters
Why do even the most educated people today feel that their grip on what they can truly know is weaker than ever before?
Mark Pagel
Professor of Evolutionary Biology, Reading University, UK; Fellow, Royal Society; Author, Wired for Culture
Is a single world language and culture inevitable?
Elaine Pagels
Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University; Author, Revelations
Why is religion still around in the twenty-first century?
Bruce Parker
Visiting Professor, Stevens Institute of Technology; Author, The Power of the Sea: Tsunamis, Storm Surges, and Our Quest to Predict Disasters
Is the assertion "Nothingness is impossible" the most fundamental statement we can make about our existence?
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