- What if…
within your discipline, you could make, generate, produce,
fashion, form, craft, build, or construct a new idea?
What would it be?
- Why do we question? Why do we create?
Where do we look for the answers to our questions?
- What is the nature of intelligence, and can we reproduce
it in a machine? Can machines think? Can machines be
creative? Is artificial intelligence in human society a dream or
a nightmare?
- Do we create more questions than we answer?
How does that affect our lives?
- Why not create new places
by breaking old borders?
- How do we create the lives we
want?
- Does what we do, create who we are?
- What makes us human?
- When does thought begin? How do
we acquire knowledge of the world? What is consciousness?
Can it be put in a
machine? And if yes, how could
you ever know for sure?
- Are there any kinds of robots that shouldn't be created
or that you wouldn't
want to see created?
- What are designer genes? Should
parents be able to choose their child's hair color, eye
color, height...or avoid
congenital predispositions?
- How was the universe
created?
- What is the link between nature and nurture?
- What if
we could create the future?
- Who are the most important
questioners and creators of our time? Of the past?
- Is
what we are creating improving the future? And if yes,
for whom?
- How can we foster creativity in others?
How do we create spaces in which it is safe to live with
the questions
and not be consumed with finding the answers right away?
- Who are we?
- Do we create evil by believing in it?
- If we are rational
beings who believe in progress, why do we destroy, deconstruct,
or dismantle what has been
created?
- How do we justify disorder, disobedience,
disparity?
- Can violence and dissention, dissidence and
demystification bring about or uphold order, harmony,
or balance?
- Can human originality and invention lead
to defeat, demolition, or annihilation? How?
- How can
we create opportunities for growth?
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