(Note: Transcripts available for first three sessions only.)

Do We Understand the Fallibility of Memory? (Transcript)

John Gabrieli, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Stanford
Barbara Tversky, Professor of Psychology, Stanford

Do We Understand Consciousness? (Transcript)

Walter Freeman, Professor of the Graduate School, UC Berkeley
John Searle, Professor of Philosophy, UC Berkeley

Is There More to the Universe than We can Observe? (Transcript)

Andrei Linde, Professor of Physics, Stanford
Joel Primack, Professor of Physics, UC Santa Cruz

Do Genes Largely Determine Human Behavior?

Alison Gopnik, Professor of Psychology, UC Berkeley
Richard Strohman, Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry, UC Berkeley

How is the Quest for Artificial Intelligence Progressing?

Hubert Dreyfus, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, UC Berkeley
David Israel, Computer Scientist, Stanford Research Institute
John McCarthy, Professor of Computer Science, Stanford
Stuart Russell, Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley
Lotfi Zadeh, Emeritus Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley

Is the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Dangerous?

Albert Harrison, Professor of Psychology, UC Davis
Seth Shostak, Public Programs Scientist, SETI Institute

Is the Discovery of Extraterrestrial Intelligence Likely?

Jill Tarter, Director of Project Phoenix, SETI Institute
Dan Werthimer, Director of Project SERENDIP, UC Berkeley

Is Alternative Medicine Worthy of Further Research?

Dean Ornish, President, Preventive Medicine Research Institute
Wallace Sampson, Clinical Professor of Medicine, Stanford

Do We Understand the Origin of Life on Earth?

Sherwood Chang, Exobiology Branch Chief, NASA-Ames Research Center
Andrew Pohorille, Cellular Modeling Head, NASA-Ames Research Center

Would Life on Other Worlds Be Like Life on Earth?

David Deamer, Professor of Biochemistry, UC Santa Cruz
Richard Zare, Professor of Chemistry, Stanford

Will Einstein’s Dream of a Unified Theory of Everything Be Realized in Our Time?

Nima Arkani-Hamed, Research Physicist, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Helen Quinn, Research Physicist, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

Do We Understand How the Evolution of the Universe Will End?

Fred Adams, Professor of Physics, University of Michigan
Greg Laughlin, Research Astrophysicist, UC Berkeley

Can Human Longevity Be Markedly Increased?

Judith Campisi, Molecular Biology Head, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Calvin Harley, Chief Scientific Officer, Geron Corporation

Is Addiction in Our Genes?

Neal Benowitz, Professor of Medicine, UC San Francisco
Kirk Wilhelmsen, Assistant Professor of Neurology, UC San Francisco

Does More Than One Universe Exist?
Alex Filippenko, Professor of Astronomy, UC Berkeley
Roger Romani, Assistant Professor of Astronomy, Stanford