Joel Gold

Psychiatrist; Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry, NYU School of Medicine; Coauthor (with Ian Gold), Suspicious Minds

Can we acquire complete access to our unconscious minds?

Nigel Goldenfeld

Physicist, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Is it possible to control a system capable of evolving?

Rebecca Newberger Goldstein

Philosopher, Novelist; Recipient, 2014 National Humanities Medal; Author, Plato at the Googleplex; 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction

If we're not the agents of ourselves (and it's hard to see how we can be) how can we make sense of moral accountability (and how can we live coherently without it)?

Daniel Goleman

Psychologist; Author (with Richard Davidson), Altered Traits

Is there a subtle form of consciousness that operates independent of brain function?

Alison Gopnik

Psychologist, UC, Berkeley; Author, The Gardener and the Carpenter

How can the few pounds of grey goo between our ears let us make utterly surprising, completely unprecedented, and remarkably true discoveries about the world around us, in every domain and at every scale, from quarks to quasars?

John Gottman

Psychologist; Co-founder, The Gottman Relationship Institute; Author, The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work

Will a comprehensive mathematics of human behavior ever be created?

Jonathan Gottschall

Distinguished Research Fellow, English Department, Washington & Jefferson College; Author,The Storytelling Animal

Are stories bad for us?

William Grassie

Interdisciplinary Scholar; Author, The New Sciences of Religion

What knowledge and know-how are our descendants at risk of forgetting as our species passes through future evolutionary bottlenecks?

Kurt Gray

Associate Professor of Psychology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Co-author (with Daniel Wegner), The Mind Club

What will happen to human love when we can design the perfect robot lover?

A. C. Grayling

Master of the New College of the Humanities; Supernumerary Fellow, St Anne's College, Oxford; Author, War: An Enquiry

What ethical responsibilities will humans owe to AGI systems?

Tom Griffiths

Professor, Psychology and Cognitive Science, University of California, Berkeley; Director, Computational Cognitive Science Lab and Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences; Co-author (with Brian Christian), Algorithms to Live By

What new cognitive abilities will we need to live in a world of intelligent machines?

June Gruber

Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Colorado, Boulder

What is the upper limit for how malleable the human mind and our emotions can actually be?

Jonathan Haidt

Social Psychologist; Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership, New York University Stern School of Business; Author, The Righteous Mind

Why is it so hard to find the truth?

David Haig

George Putnam Professor of Biology, Harvard University; Author, Genomic Imprinting and Kinship

What will be the use of 99% of humanity for the 1%?

Hans Halvorson

Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University

Is scientific knowledge the most valuable possession of humanity?

Timo Hannay

Founding Managing Director, SchoolDash; Co-organizer, Sci Foo Camp

Why do we get to ask questions at all?

Judith Rich Harris

Independent Investigator and Theoretician; Author, The Nurture Assumption; No Two Alike: Human Nature and Human Individuality

How could one last question possibly be enough?

Sam Harris

Neuroscientist; Philosopher; Author, Waking Up

Is the actual all that is possible?

Daniel Haun

Professor of Early Child Development and Culture, Director, Leipzig Research Center for Early Child Development, Leipzig University

Which facets of life will we never understand once biological and cultural diversity has vanished?

Marti Hearst

Computer Scientist, UC Berkeley, School of Information; Author, Search User Interfaces

Will reading and writing survive given the seduction of video and audio?

Dirk Helbing

Professor of Computational Social Science, ETH Zurich; TU Delft, The Netherlands