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Creating
  • 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?