The Edge Question 2018 - 7 [1]
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Brian G. Keating [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 Kedrosky [17]
Editor, Infectious Greed; General Partner, SK Ventures
Why don't naked mole rats age or get cancer?
Kevin Kelly [18]
Senior Maverick, Wired; Author, What Technology Wants and The Inevitable
How can the process of science be improved?
Marcel Kinsbourne [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 Klein [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 Kleinberg [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 Knutson [22]
Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Stanford University
How can we achieve closed-loop neural control of human hedonics?
Bart Kosko [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. Kosslyn [24]
Founding Dean, Minerva Schools at the Keck Graduate Institute
Can brain implants make us better human beings?
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 Krause [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. Krauss [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 Kreye [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 Krumme [29]
Applied Mathematician, UC Berkeley; Founder, Leeward Co.
Why do we care so much about how well we're approximated by algorithms?
Robert Kurzban [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 LeDoux [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. Legare [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 Levi [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 Levin [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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