Scott Aaronson

Professor of Computer Science; Director, Quantum Information Center, University of Texas at Austin

Mark Balaguer

Professor of Philosophy, California State University, Los Angeles

Nick Bostrom

Professor; Director, Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford

Rodney Brooks

Robotics Entrepreneur; former Director, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT

Sean Carroll

Research Professor of Physics, Caltech

Gregory Chaitin

Professor, Universidad de Buenos Aires; Mathematician (Emeritus), IBM

Aaron Clauset

Professor of Computer Science, University of Colorado Boulder

Ivan Corwin

Professor of Mathematics, Columbia University

Raissa D’Sousa

Professor, Computer Science, UC Davis; President, Network Science Society

Paul Davies

Regents' Professor, Arizona State University

William Dembski

Founding Senior Fellow, Center for Science and Culture, Discovery Institute

David Deutsch

Visiting Professor, Centre for Quantum Computation, Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford

Robbert Dijkgraaf

Minister of Education, Culture and Science, Netherlands; forrner Director, Institute for Advanced Study

David DiVincenzo

Director of Theoretical Nanoelectronics, Forschungszentrum Juelich; Professor of Physics, RWTH Aachen

George Ellis

Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Complex Systems, University of Cape Town

Edward Feigenbaum

Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, Stanford University

Pedro Ferreira

Professor of Astrophysics, University of Oxford

George Geis

Professor, Anderson School of Management, UCLA Anderson

Murray Gell-Mann

Nobel Laureate in Physics; Professor Emeritus of Theoretical Physics, Caltech

Leon Glass

Meritus Professor and the Isadore Rosenfeld Chair in Cardiology, McGill University

David Gross

Nobel Laueate in Physics; Chancellor's Chair Professor of Theoretical Physics, UC Santa Barbara

Donald Hoffman

Cognitive Scientist, UC Irvine

Michael Hopkins

Professor of Mathematics, Harvard University

Menas Kafatos

Professor of Computational Physics, Chapman University

Subhash Kak

Regents Professor of Computer Science, Oklahoma State

Renata Kallosh

Professor of Physics, Stanford University

Stuart Kauffman

Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry, Univesity of Pennsylvania; Santa Fe Institute

Bart Kosko

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Law, USC

Raymond Kurzweil

Inventor, Computer Scientist, Futurist

Leon Lederman

Nobel Prize in Physics; Director Emeritus, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab)

Andrei Linde

Harald Trap Friis Professor of Physics, Stanford University

Seth Lloyd

Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Physics, MIT

Uri Maoz

Assistant Professor of Computational Neuroscience and Psychology, Chapman University

Tim Maudlin

Professor of Philosophy, New York University

Marvin Minsky

Professor and Co-founder, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT

Leonard Mlodinow

Physicist and author

Denis Noble

Professor Emeritus and co-Director of Computational Physiology, Oxford University

Don Page

Professor of Physics, University of Alberta

Tim Palmer

Royal Society Research Professor in the department of physics at the University of Oxford; Author

Roger Penrose

Nobel Prize in Physics; Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, University of Oxford

Saul Perlmutter

Nobel Laureate in Physics; Professor of Physics, UC Berkeley

Peitro Perona

Professor of Electrical Engineering, Caltech

John Polkinghorne

Professor of Mathematical Physics, President, Queens' College, Cambridge; Anglican priest; Templeton Prize recipient

Lisa Randall

Theoretical Physicist; Professor of Science, Harvard University

Martin Rees

Astronomer Royal, Cosmologist, University of Cambridge

Paul Steinhardt

Professor of Physics, Princeton University

Leonard Susskind

Professor of Theoretical Physics, Stanford University

Max Tegmark

Professor of Physics, MIT

Jeff Tollaksen

Professor, Co-director, Institute of Quantum Studies, Chapman University

Giulio Tononi

Professor and Director, Wisconsin Institute for Sleep and Conssciousness, University of Wisconsin

Karen Uhlenbeck

Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin

Licia Verde

Professor of Physics and Astronomy, University of Barcelona

Steven Weinberg

Nobel Laureate in Physics; Professor Emeritus, University of Texas at Austin

Geoffrey West

Distinguished Professor and former President, Santa Fe Institute

Birgitta Whaley

Professor of Chemical Physics; Director, Berkeley Quantum Information and Computation Center, University of California, Berkeley

Frank Wilczek

Nobel Laureate in Physics; Templeton Prize recipient; Emeritus Professor of Physics, MIT; Distinguished Professor in Physics, Arizona State University

Edward Witten

Charles Simonyi Professor, School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study

Stephen Wolfram

Founder and CEO, Wolfram Research

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