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Deirdre Barrett Clinical Psychologist, Harvard Medical School; Past President, International Association for the Study of Dreams
Rodney Brooks Robotics Entrepreneur; former Director, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT
David Chalmers Professor of Philosophy and Co-director, Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness, New York University
Daniel Dennett Former University Professor, Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, and Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies, Tufts University
Susan Greenfield Neuroscientist, Writer, Broadcaster, Entrepreneur; former Professor of Pharmacology, Oxford
John Searle Former Professor Emeritus of the Philosophy of Mind and Language, University of California, Berkeley
Robert Stickgold Professor of Psychiatry; Director, Center for Sleep and Cognition, Harvard University
Bas van Fraassen Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, San Francisco State University; McCosh Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Princeton University