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Brian G. KeatingBrian G. [16]
Atrophysicist, University of California San Diego’s Department of Physics; Author, Losing the Nobel Prize

 

 

 

 

Is there any observational evidence that could shake your faith, or lack thereof?

 

 

 

 


Paul KedroskyPaul [17]
Editor, Infectious Greed; General Partner, SK Ventures

 

 

 

 

Why don't naked mole rats age or get cancer?

 

 

 

 


Kevin KellyKevin [18]
Senior Maverick, Wired; Author, What Technology Wants and The Inevitable

 

 

 

 

How can the process of science be improved? 

 

 

 

 


Marcel KinsbourneMarcel [19]
Neurologist and Cognitive Neuroscientist, The New School; Co-author, Children's Learning and Attention Problems

 

 

 

 

Are dreams brief glimpses of the narrative of a subconscious alternative reality?

 

 

 

 


Gary KleinGary [20]
Senior Scientist, MacroCognition LLC; Author, Seeing What Others Don't: The Remarkable Ways We Gain Insights

 

 

 

 

How can we build machines that make us smarter?

 

 

 

 


Jon KleinbergJon [21]
Tisch University Professor of Computer Science, Cornell University

 

 

 

 

Can we create technologies that help equitably reduce the amount of conflict in the world?

 

 

 

 


Brian KnutsonBrian [22]
Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Stanford University

 

 

 

 

How can we achieve closed-loop neural control of human hedonics?

 

 

 

 


Bart KoskoBart [23]
Information Scientist and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Law, University of Southern California; Author, Noise, Fuzzy Thinking

 

 

 

 

What is the bumpiest and highest-dimensional cost surface that our best computers will be able to search and still find the deepest cost well?

 

 

 

 


Stephen M. KosslynStephen M. [24]
Founding Dean, Minerva Schools at the Keck Graduate Institute

 

 

 

 

Can brain implants make us better human beings?

 

 

 

 


John W.John W. Krakauer [25]
Neurologist and Neuroscientist, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

 

 

 

 

Is our continued coexistence with the other big mammals essential to furthering our understanding of human cognition?

 

 

 

 


Kai KrauseKai [26]
Software Pioneer; Philosopher; Author, A Realtime Literature Explorer

 

 

 

 

What will happen to religion on earth when the first alien life form is found?​

 

 

 

 


Lawrence M. KraussLawrence M. [27]
Theoretical Physicist; Foundation Professor, School of Earth and Space Exploration and Physics Department, ASU; Author, The Greatest Story Ever Told . . . So Far

 

 

 

 

Is the universe like an onion that will require science to keep peeling back new layers of reality and asking questions forever?

 

 

 

 


Andrian KreyeAndrian [28]
Editor, The Feuilleton (Arts and Essays), of the German Daily Newspaper, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Munich

 

 

 

 

Do we need checks and balances for virtual worlds?

 

 

 

 


Coco KrummeCoco [29]
Applied Mathematician, UC Berkeley; Founder, Leeward Co.

 

 

 

 

Why do we care so much about how well we're approximated by algorithms?

 

 

 

 


Robert KurzbanRobert [30]
Psychologist, UPenn; Director, Penn Laboratory for Experimental Evolutionary Psychology (PLEEP); Author, Why Everyone (Else) is a Hypocrite

 

 

 

 

How will predictive models in the social sciences achieve the accuracy and precision of those in the natural sciences?

 

 

 

 


Joseph LeDouxJoseph [31]
Professor of Neural Science, Psychology, Psychiatry, and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, NYU; Director Emotional Brain Institute; Author, Anxious

 

 

 

 

Has consciousness done more good or bad for humanity?

 

 

 

 


Cristine H. LegareCristine H. [32]
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, The University of Texas at Austin; Director, Cognition, Culture, and Development Lab

 

 

 

 

Will human psychology keep pace with the exponential growth of technological innovation associated with cultural evolution?

 

 

 

 


Martin Lercher [33]
Professor of Computational Cell Biology at Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf; Co-author (with Itai Yanai), The Society of Genes

 

 

 

 

 

What proportion of "ethnic" and "religious" tensions are rooted in our genes?

 

 

 

 


Margaret LeviMargaret [34]
Sara Miller McCune Director, Center For Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, professor, Stanford University; Jere L. Bacharach Professor Emerita of International Studies, University of Washington

 

 

 

 

Are humans capable of building a moral economy?

 

 

 

 


Janna LevinJanna [35]
Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Barnard College of Columbia University; Author, Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space

 

 

 

 

Is gravity a fundamental law of nature, or does gravity—and thereby spacetime—emerge as a consequence of the underlying quantum nature of reality?

 

 

 

 

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