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Connecting
  • What if…
    within your discipline, you could link, relate, or involve another discipline? What would it be?
  • How do we connect memory and dreams?
  • How do we connect with one another, with the natural world, with our spirits, and with God?
  • Who are our partners? How do we build partnerships? How do we work with others in pursuing the answers to our questions?
  • What comes from looking at questions through the lenses of different disciplines?
  • Is there a connection between religion and science?
  • How have modern technological advances brought together or separated the sciences?
  • What is the basis of religious belief? Why are there so many common bonds between diverse belief systems?
  • How does computing fit into the world? How can we protect our privacy in a networked world?
  • What do our languages tell us about our minds or the world?
  • If in the future machines have the ability to reason, be self-aware and have feelings, then what makes a human being a human being, and a robot a robot?
  • Are there ethical bounds on what computers should be programmed to do? Where do we draw the line on responsibility for actions when dealing with robots, computers, programming?
  • What should we do, if anything, for people who lose their jobs to technology?
  • Is there a connection between education, crime, and poverty?
  • What if all humanity is connected as one? What is the impact to the individual?
  • How do we connect with the past?
  • How do we connect with the public?
  • How can teachers create better relationships with their students? How can they help build successful classroom communities? How can they help students see connections?
  • What determines how we perceive the others: other countries, other cultures, other subcultures?
  • How do cultures and subcultures build divisions (?)and disengage from one another?
  • Why do we question and resist one another or each other’s values: Through science? The performing arts? Literature? The cinema?
  • We emphasize the importance of dialogue and equality, yet we often silence and disregard the opinion of others: why?
  • What role do values play in our connections to others?
  • What personal or professional codes of ethics should be applied when connecting with others in our personal and professional lives?
  • Can we create without connecting?