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Michael Nesmith Existence is Non-Time, Non-Sequential, and Non-Objective Existence is Non-Time,.	Carolyn Porco Planetary Scientist; Cassini Imaging Team Leader;... The Greatest Story Ever Told
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Gary Marcus Cognitive Scientist; Author, Kluge: The Haphazard... Minds, genes, and machines	Jaron Lanier Computer scientist; musician; author, You Are Not A Gadget Homuncular Flexibility
W. Daniel Hillis Physicist, Computer Scientist, Chairman of Applied Minds,... The idea that we should all.	Neil Gershenfeld Physicist, Director, MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms;... Democratizing access to the.
Paul Steinhardt Albert Einstein Professor in Science, Departments of... It's a matter of time	Sam Harris Neuroscientist; Chairman, The Reason Project; Author,... Science Must Destroy Religion
Scott Atran Anthropologist, National Center for Scientific Research,... Science encourages religion.	Marcelo Gleiser Theoretical Physicist, Dartmouth College; Author, A Tear... Can science explain itself?
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Leonard Susskind Felix Bloch Professor in Theoretical Physics, Stanford;... The	Gerald Holton Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and Professor of the... The medicination of the.
Charles Seife Professor of Journalism, New York University; formerly... Nothing	Rodney A. Brooks Roboticist; Panasonic Professor of Robotics (emeritus) ,... Being alone in the universe
Mahzarin Banaji Psychologist; Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social... Using science to get to the.	David Gelernter Computer Scientist, Yale University; Chief Scientist,... What are people well-informed.
Brian Greene Co-founder of the World Science Festival and Chairman,... The Multiverse	Daniel Goleman Working with Emotional Intelligence Cyber-disinhibition
Eric R. Kandel Recipient, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2002;... Free will is exercised.	John Horgan Science writings program at the Stevens Institute of... We Have No Souls
Tor Nørretranders Science Writer; Consultant; Lecturer, Copenhagen; Author,... Social Relativity	Karl Sabbagh Writer and Television Producer; Author, Remembering Our... The human brain and its.
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Simon Baron - Cohen Psychologist, Autism Research Centre, Cambridge... A political system based on.	Freeman Dyson Professor of Physics, Institute for Advanced Study;... Biotechnology will be.
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George Dyson Science Historian; Author, Turing's Cathedral: The... Understanding molecular.	Keith Devlin Executive Director, H-STAR Institute, Stanford... We are entirely alone
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Jeremy Bernstein Professor emeritus, Stevens Institute of Technology;... The idea that we understand.	Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Psychologist; Director, Quality of Life Research Center,... The free market
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Richard Nisbett Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan; Author,... Telling More Than We Can Know	Robert Provine Psychologist and Neuroscientist, University of Maryland;... This is all there is
Donald D. Hoffman Cognitive Scientist, UC, Irvine; Author, Visual Intelligence A spoon is like a headache	Marc D. Hauser Psychologist and Biologist, Harvard University: Author,... A universal grammar of.
Ray Kurzweil Principal developer of the first omni-font optical... The near-term inevitability.	Haim Harari Physicist, former President, Weizmann Institute of... Democracy may be on its way.
David G. Myers Professor of Psychology, Hope College; author Psychology,... A marriage option for all	Clay Shirky Social & Technology Network Topology Researcher; Adjunct... Free will is going away. Time.
Michael Shermer Publisher, Skeptic magazine; monthly columnist,... Where goods cross frontiers,.	Roger Schank Psychologist & Computer Scientist; Engines for Education... No More Teacher's Dirty Looks
Arnold Trehub Psychologist, University of Massachusetts, Amherst;... Modern science is a product.	Susan Blackmore Psychologist; Author, Consciousness: An Introduction Everything is pointless
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Philip Zimbardo Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Stanford University;... The banality of evil is.	Richard Foreman Playwright & Director; Founder, The Ontological-Hysteric... Radicalized relativity
John Gottman Psychologist; Co-founder, The Gottman Relationship... Emotional intelligence	Piet Hut Professor of astrophysics at the Institute for Advanced... A radical reevaluation of the.
Dan Sperber Social and Cognitive Scientist; Directeur, de Recherche... Culture is natural	Martin Seligman Zellerbach Family Professor of Psychology, University of... Relativism
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