Arnold Zuboff is a philosopher of personal identity, consciousness, and probability, best known for championing “universalism” — the radical view that all conscious experience belongs to a single subject, and that every conscious being is, in the deepest sense, you. An Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at University College London, Zuboff…
Roman V. Yampolskiy is a computer scientist and a founding researcher in the field of artificial intelligence safety. He is a tenured Associate Professor at the University of Louisville’s Speed School of Engineering, where he founded and directs the Cyber Security Lab. Yampolskiy is widely credited with coining the term “AI safety” in 2011, and…
Michael James is a leading scholar and translator of the teachings of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi (1879–1950), whose method of self-investigation (ātma-vicāra) has profoundly influenced the modern understanding of non-dual philosophy. James first encountered Ramana’s teachings in 1976 while travelling through India. He soon settled in Tiruvannamalai, where he spent twenty years studying under Sri…
Uziel Awret (1953–2026) was a physicist and philosopher who devoted his career to the study of consciousness. Born in Israel, he studied physics at the Israel Institute of Technology (Technion), biophysics at Georgetown University, and continental philosophy at George Mason University, later teaching physics at Trinity Washington University. Awret was widely recognized for his work…
Zoltan is a philosophy and religious studies graduate of Columbia University. In 2013, Zoltan published The Transhumanist Wager, an award-winning fictional thriller describing philosopher Jethro Knights and his unwavering quest for immortality via science and technology. Zoltan writes futurist and transhumanist-themed Op-Eds for various media, including The New York Times, Newsweek, and Wired. Zoltan is…
Dr. Mark Bailey is an associate professor at the National Intelligence University, where he is the Department Chair for Cyber Intelligence and Data Science, as well as the Director of the Biological and Computational Intelligence Center. Bailey writes about the intersection between artificial intelligence, complexity, and national security. His work has appeared in publications such…
Dr. Joseph A. Corabi is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia. He earned his Ph.D. from Rutgers University and specializes in metaphysics and epistemology. His scholarly work delves into topics such as consciousness, personal identity, and the philosophical implications of artificial intelligence.
Lucia Melloni leads the Neural Circuits, Consciousness, and Cognition Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt, and holds a position as Research Professor in the Department of Neurology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Melloni’s research is pioneering in the field of consciousness, seeking to unravel the complexities of human…
Michel Bitbol is a researcher in the philosophy of physics, the philosophy of knowledge, and the philosophy of mind. He is Director of Research at the CNRS, based at the Husserl Archives, ENS, Paris. Together with Bernard d’Espagnat, Jean Petitot, and Hervé Zwirn, he is a founding member of the Collège de Physique et de…
Willis W. Harman was an American engineer, futurist, and author associated with the human potential movement. He was convinced that late industrial civilization faced a period of major cultural crisis, which called for a profound transformation of human consciousness. Over a career lasting some four decades, he worked to raise public awareness on the subject…
Philip Goff is a British author, panpsychist philosopher, and professor at Durham University whose research focuses on philosophy of mind and consciousness. Goff is also the co-host of the podcast Mind Chat. He blogs on Substack, and his work has been published in The Guardian, Aeon and Scientific American, among others. Goff’s main research project explores…
Iain McGilchrist is a former Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, an associate Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford, a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Consultant Emeritus of the Bethlem and Maudsley Hospital, London, a former research Fellow in Neuroimaging at Johns Hopkins University Medical…