DANIEL KAHNEMAN (https://www.edge.org/memberbio/daniel_kahneman) is Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology Emeritus, Princeton University, author of Thinking, Fast and Slow, and co-author (with Cass R. Sunstein and Olivier Sibony) of Noise. He is the winner of the 2013 Presidential Medal of Honor, and the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/daniel_kahneman-adversarial-collaboration

MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI (https://www.edge.org/memberbio/mihaly_csikszentmihalyi) (1934-2021) (pronounced "chick-SENT-me high") was a Hungarian-born polymath who recognized and named the psychological concept of "flow," a highly focused mental state conducive to productivity. He was Distinguished Professor of Management at Claremont Graduate University and the former head of the Department of Psychology at the University of Chicago and of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Lake Forest College. His research and theories in the psychology of optimal experience have revolutionized psychology and have been adopted in practice by national leaders such as Bill Clinton and Tony Blair as well as top members of the global executive elite who run the world's major corporations. Csikszentmihalyi is the author of several popular books about his theories, including the bestselling Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience; The Evolving Self: A Psychology for The Third Millennium; Creativity; and Finding Flow. The Wall Street Journal has listed Flow among the six books "every well-stocked business library should have." The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/mihaly_csikszentmihalyi-flow

MARKUS GABRIEL (https://www.edge.org/memberbio/markus_gabriel), one of the founders of New Realism, holds the Chair for Epistemology, Modern and Contemporary Philosophy at the University of Bonn, where he is also Director of the International Center for Philosophy and the multidisciplinary Center for Science and Thought. He is the author of Why The World Does Not Exist. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/markus_gabriel-the-paradox-of-self-consciousness

PHILIP E. TETLOCK (https://www.edge.org/memberbio/philip_tetlock), Political and Social Scientist, is the Annenberg University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, with appointments in Wharton, psychology and political science. He is co-leader of the Good Judgment Project, a multi-year forecasting study, the author of Expert Political Judgment and (with Aaron Belkin) Counterfactual Thought Experiments in World Politics, and co-author (with Dan Gardner) of Superforecasting: The Art & Science of Prediction . Class II Part II: https://www.edge.org/conversation/philip_tetlock-edge-master-class-2015-a-short-course-in-superforecasting-class-ii

PHILIP E. TETLOCK (https://www.edge.org/memberbio/philip_tetlock), Political and Social Scientist, is the Annenberg University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, with appointments in Wharton, psychology and political science. He is co-leader of the Good Judgment Project, a multi-year forecasting study, the author of Expert Political Judgment and (with Aaron Belkin) Counterfactual Thought Experiments in World Politics, and co-author (with Dan Gardner) of Superforecasting: The Art & Science of Prediction . Class II Part I: https://www.edge.org/conversation/philip_tetlock-edge-master-class-2015-a-short-course-in-superforecasting-class-ii

PHILIP E. TETLOCK (https://www.edge.org/memberbio/philip_tetlock), Political and Social Scientist, is the Annenberg University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, with appointments in Wharton, psychology and political science. He is co-leader of the Good Judgment Project, a multi-year forecasting study, the author of Expert Political Judgment and (with Aaron Belkin) Counterfactual Thought Experiments in World Politics, and co-author (with Dan Gardner) of Superforecasting: The Art & Science of Prediction . Class I Part II: https://www.edge.org/conversation/philip_tetlock-edge-master-class-2015-a-short-course-in-superforecasting-class-i

PHILIP E. TETLOCK (https://www.edge.org/memberbio/philip_tetlock), Political and Social Scientist, is the Annenberg University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, with appointments in Wharton, psychology and political science. He is co-leader of the Good Judgment Project, a multi-year forecasting study, the author of Expert Political Judgment and (with Aaron Belkin) Counterfactual Thought Experiments in World Politics, and co-author (with Dan Gardner) of Superforecasting: The Art & Science of Prediction . Class I Part I: https://www.edge.org/conversation/philip_tetlock-edge-master-class-2015-a-short-course-in-superforecasting-class-i

JOHN MARKOFF is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who covers science and technology for The New York Times. His most recent book is the forthcoming Machines of Loving Grace: The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/john_markoff-the-next-wave

PRIYAMVADA NATARAJAN (https://www.edge.org/memberbio/priyamvada_natarajan) is a professor in the Departments of Astronomy and Physics at Yale University, whose research is focused on exotica in the universe—dark matter, dark energy, and black holes. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/priyamvada_natarajan-the-exquisite-role-of-dark-matter

SEAN CARROLL (https://www.edge.org/memberbio/sean_carroll) is a research professor at Caltech and the author of The Particle at the End of the Universe, which won the 2013 Royal Society Winton Prize, and_ From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time. He has recently been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Gemant Award from the American Institute of Physics, and the Emperor Has No Clothes Award from the Freedom From Religion Foundation. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/seancarroll-layers-of-reality

DAVID CHRISTIAN is Professor of History, Macquarie University, Sydney; Author, Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/david_christian-we-need-a-modern-origin-story-a-big-history

PETER COVENEY (https://www.edge.org/memberbio/peter_coveney) holds a chair in Physical Chemistry, and is director of the Centre for Computational Science at University College London and co-author, with Roger Highfield, of The Arrow of Time _and _Frontiers of Complexity. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/peter_coveney-popper-versus-bacon

RICHARD DAWKINS (https://www.edge.org/memberbio/richard_dawkins) is an evolutionary biologist; Emeritus Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science, Oxford; Author, The Selfish Gene; The Extended Phenotype; Climbing Mount Improbable; The God Delusion; An Appetite For Wonder; and (forthcoming) A Brief Candle In The Dark. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/richard_dawkins-this-is-my-vision-of-life

SETH LLOYD (https://www.edge.org/memberbio/seth_lloyd) is a theoretical physicist at MIT; Nam P. Suh Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering; external professor at the Santa Fe Institute; and author of Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/seth_lloyd-communal-intelligence

JAAN TALLINN (https://www.edge.org/memberbio/jaan_tallinn) is a co-founder of The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at University of Cambridge, UK as well as The Future of Life Institute in Cambridge, MA. He is also a founding engineer of Kazaa and Skype. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/jaan_tallinn-existential-risk

YUVAL NOAH HARARI (https://www.edge.org/memberbio/yuval_noah_harari), Lecturer, Department of History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is the author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. DANIEL KAHNEMAN (https://www.edge.org/memberbio/daniel_kahneman) is the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 2002 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 2013. He is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology Emeritus, Princeton, and author of Thinking, Fast and Slow. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/yuvalnoahharari-daniel_kahneman-death-is-optional

NEIL GERSHENFELD (https://www.edge.org/memberbio/neil_gershenfeld) is a Physicist and the Director of MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms. He is the author of FAB. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/neil_gershenfeld-digital-reality

CHIARA MARLETTO (https://www.edge.org/memberbio/chiara_marletto) is a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College and Postdoctoral Research Assistant at the Materials Department, University of Oxford; Currently working with David Deutsch. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/chiara_marletto-formulating-science-in-terms-of-possible-and-impossible-tasks

MARGARET LEVI (https://www.edge.org/memberbio/margaret_levi) is the Director of the Center For Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. She is the Jere L. Bacharach Professor Emerita of International Studies at the University of Washington. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/margaret_levi-entwined-fates

NAOMI EISENBERGER (https://www.edge.org/memberbio/naomi_eisenberger) is a professor in the Social Psychology Program at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is director of the Social and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory as well as co-director of the Social Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/naomi_eisenberger-social-pain

RICHARD PRUM (https://www.edge.org/memberbio/richard_prum) is an evolutionary ornithologist at Yale University, where he is the Curator of Ornithology and Head Curator of Vertebrate Zoology in the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/richard_prum-duck-sex-aesthetic-evolution-and-the-origin-of-beauty

MATTHEW D. LIEBERMAN (https://www.edge.org/memberbio/matthew_d_lieberman) is a professor of psychology at UCLA. He is the author of Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/matthewdlieberman-latitudes-of-acceptance

JONATHAN GOTTSCHALL (https://www.edge.org/memberbio/jonathan_gottschall) is a Distinguished Research Fellow in the English Department at Washington & Jefferson College. He is the author or editor of six books, including The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human (a New York Times _Editor’s Choice Selection and a finalist for the _LA Times _Book Prize). The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/jonathangottschall-the-way-we-live-our-lives-in-stories

STEVEN PINKER (https://www.edge.org/memberbio/steven_pinker) is the Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. He is the author of ten books, including The Language Instinct, How the Mind Works, The Better Angels of Our Nature, and_ The Sense of Style_ (September). The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/steven_pinker-writing-in-the-21st-century

PATRICIA S. CHURCHLAND (https://www.edge.org/memberbio/patricia_s_churchland) is professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of California, San Diego, and adjunct professor at the Salk Institute. Her research has centered on the interface between neuroscience and philosophy, with a current focus on the association of morality and the social brain. She is the author of Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/patriciaschurchland-the-nature-of-moral-motivation

DANIEL C. DENNETT (https://www.edge.org/memberbio/daniel_c_dennett) is a Philosopher; Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, Co-Director, Center for Cognitive Studies, Tufts University; Author, Intuition Pumps. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/panel/daniel-c-dennett-the-de-darwinizing-of-cultural-change-headcon-13-part-x

JOSHUA KNOBE (https://www.edge.org/memberbio/joshua_knobe) is an Experimental Philosopher; Associate Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science, Yale University. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/panel/josh-knobe-experimental-philosophy-and-the-notion-of-the-self-headcon-13-part-viii

DAVID PIZARRO (https://www.edge.org/memberbio/david_pizarro) is Associate Professor of Psychology, Cornell University, specializing in moral judgement. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/panel/david-pizarro-the-failure-of-social-and-moral-intuitions-headcon-13-part-ix

KEVIN KELLY (https://www.edge.org/memberbio/kevin_kelly) is Senior Maverick at Wired magazine. He helped launch Wired in 1993, and served as its Executive Editor until January 1999. He is currently editor and publisher of the popular Cool Tools, True Film, and Street Use websites. His most recent books are Cool Tools, and What Technology Wants. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/kevin_kelly-the-technium

LAURIE SANTOS (https://www.edge.org/memberbio/laurie_r_santos) is Associate Professor, Department of Psychology; Director, Comparative Cognition Laboratory, Yale University. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/panel/laurie-santos-what-makes-humans-unique-headcon-13-part-vii

JOSHUA GREENE (https://www.edge.org/memberbio/joshua_d_greene) is John and Ruth Hazel Associate Professor of the Social Sciences and the director of the Moral Cognition Laboratory in the Department of Psychology, Harvard University. Author, Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, And The Gap Between Us And Them. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/panel/joshua-greene-the-role-of-brain-imaging-in-social-science-headcon-13-part-vi

NICHOLAS CHRISTAKIS (https://www.edge.org/memberbio/nicholas_a_christakis) is a Physician and Social Scientist; Director, The Human Nature Lab, Yale University; Coauthor, Connected: The Surprising Power Of Our Social Networks And How They Shape Our Lives. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/panel/nicholas-christakis-the-science-of-social-connections-headcon-13-part-v

FIERY CUSHMAN (https://www.edge.org/memberbio/fiery_cushman) is Assistant Professor, Cognitive, Linguistic, Social Science, Brown University. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/panel/fiery-cushman-the-paradox-of-automatic-planning-headcon-13-part-iii

JUNE GRUBER (https://www.edge.org/memberbio/june_gruber) is Assistant Professor of Psychology, Director, Positive Emotion & Psychopathology Lab, Yale University. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/panel/june-gruber-the-scientific-study-of-positive-emotion-headcon-13-part-ii

SENDHIL MULLAINATHAN (https://www.edge.org/memberbio/sendhil_mullainathan) is Professor of Economics, Harvard; Assistant Director for Research, The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), U.S. Treasury Department (2011-2013); Coauthor, Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/panel/sendhil-mullainathan-what-big-data-means-for-social-science-headcon-13-part-i

ROBERT POLLACK (https://www.edge.org/memberbio/robert_pollack) is a professor of biological sciences, and also serves as director of the University Seminars at Columbia University. He is the author of The Course of Nature, a book of drawings by the artist Amy Pollack, accompanied by his short explanatory essays. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/robert_pollack-rethinking-our-vision-of-success

JOSHUA D. GREENE (https://www.edge.org/memberbio/joshua_d_greene) is the John and Ruth Hazel Associate Professor of the Social Sciences and the director of the Moral Cognition Laboratory in the Department of Psychology, Harvard University. He studies the psychology and neuroscience of morality, focusing on the interplay between emotion and reasoning in moral decision-making. His broader interests cluster around the intersection of philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience. He is the author of Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/joshuadgreene-deep-pragmatism

DAVID MOININA SENGEH (https://www.edge.org/memberbio/david_moinina_sengeh) is a doctoral student at the MIT Media Lab, and a researcher in the Lab’s Biomechatronics group. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/davidmoininasengeh-technology-and-innovation-as-a-national-development-strategy

NAPOLEON CHAGNON (https://www.edge.org/memberbio/napoleon_chagnon) is a renowned anthropologist who is most widely recognized for his study of the Yanomamö tribes in the Amazon. He is a professor of anthropology at the University of Missouri; Author, Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes—the Yanomamö and the Anthropologists. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/napoleon-chagnon-blood-is-their-argument

NAPOLEON CHAGNON (https://www.edge.org/memberbio/napoleon_chagnon) is a renowned anthropologist who is most widely recognized for his study of the Yanomamö tribes in the Amazon. He is a professor of anthropology at the University of Missouri; Author, Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes—the Yanomamö and the Anthropologists. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/napoleon-chagnon-blood-is-their-argument

NAPOLEON CHAGNON (https://www.edge.org/memberbio/napoleon_chagnon) is a renowned anthropologist who is most widely recognized for his study of the Yanomamö tribes in the Amazon. He is a professor of anthropology at the University of Missouri; Author, Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes—the Yanomamö and the Anthropologists. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/napoleon-chagnon-blood-is-their-argument

NAPOLEON CHAGNON (https://www.edge.org/memberbio/napoleon_chagnon) is a renowned anthropologist who is most widely recognized for his study of the Yanomamö tribes in the Amazon. He is a professor of anthropology at the University of Missouri; Author, Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes—the Yanomamö and the Anthropologists. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/napoleon-chagnon-blood-is-their-argument

LEE SMOLIN (https://www.edge.org/memberbio/lee_smolin) is a founding and senior faculty member at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada. He is also Adjunct Professor of Physics at the University of Waterloo and is a member of the graduate faculty of the Department of Philosophy of the University of Toronto. He is the author of Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/lee_smolin-think-about-nature

ADAM ALTER (https://www.edge.org/memberbio/adam_alter) is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at Stern School of Business, NYU. He is the author of Drunk Tank Pink: And Other Unexpected Forces that Shape How We Think, Feel, and Behave. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/adam_alter-disfluency

PHILIP GOFF (https://www.edge.org/memberbio/philip_goff) is a philosopher and consciousness researcher at Durham University, UK, and author of Galileo's Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness (forthcoming, 2019). The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/philip_goff-a-post-galilean-paradigm

JULIAN BARBOUR (https://www.edge.org/memberbio/julian_barbour) is a theoretical physicist specializing in the study of time and motion; emeritus visiting professor in physics at the University of Oxford; and author of The Janus Point (forthcoming, 2020) and The End of Time. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/julian_barbour-the-universe-is-not-in-a-box

W. DANIEL HILLIS (https://www.edge.org/memberbio/w_daniel_hillis) is an inventor, entrepreneur, and computer scientist, Judge Widney Professor of Engineering and Medicine at USC, and author of The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/wdanielhillis-emergences

PETER GALISON (https://www.edge.org/memberbio/peter_galison) is a science historian; Joseph Pellegrino University Professor and co-founder of the Black Hole Initiative at Harvard University; and author of_ Einstein's Clocks and Poincaré’s Maps: Empires of Time. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/petergalison-epistemic-virtues

GEORGE DYSON (https://www.edge.org/memberbio/george_dyson) is a historian of science and technology and author of Darwin Among the Machines and Turing’s Cathedral. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/george_dyson-ai-that-evolves-in-the-wild

DAVID CHALMERS (https://www.edge.org/memberbio/david_chalmers) is University Professor of Philosophy and Neural Science and co-director of the Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness at New York University. He is best known for his work on consciousness, including his formulation of the "hard problem" of consciousness. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/david_chalmers-the-language-of-mind