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Not answers. The best questions we have — each sharpened by someone who made productive disagreement possible, flowing through time toward the ones still waiting for their cut.

34 questions · 11 streams
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antiquity 1900 1950 2000 today Are we separate from our machines? 1964 · Marshall McLuhan open → Can a tool want anything? today · Karl Friston open → Can intelligence be measured? 2019 · François Chollet open → Can knowing be written down? 1966 · Michael Polanyi open → Can machines think? 1950 · Alan Turing open → Could a machine be alive? 1948 · John von Neumann open → Could an LLM be conscious? today · David Chalmers open → Do we understand what we built? 2023 · Chris Olah open → Does an LLM actually understand? 2022 · Emily Bender open → Does information carry meaning? 1953 · Yehoshua Bar-Hillel open → Does prediction amount to understanding? 2010s · Geoffrey Hinton open → Does reality descend or emerge? an ancient divide, reopened · Plotinus open → Is intelligence one thing? 1983 · Howard Gardner open → How does a mind know what matters? 2012 · John Vervaeke open → Is the mind computational? 1960s · Hilary Putnam open → What are we talking to when we talk to an LLM? today · Daniel Dennett open → What is a self? 1991 · Francisco Varela open → What is agency? 1987 · Daniel Dennett open → What is art? 1964 · Leo Tolstoy open → What is beauty? Plato to Kant to now · Plato open → What is computation? 1936 · Alan Turing open → What is consciousness? 1974 · Thomas Nagel open → What is information? 1948 · Claude Shannon open → What is intelligence? 1956 · John McCarthy open → What is knowing? 1958 · Michael Polanyi open → What is life? 1944 · Erwin Schrödinger open → What is real? an ancient question, made urgent again · Plato open → What is technology? techne to today · Aristotle open → What is understanding? 1980 · John Searle open → What remains human? today · Yuval Noah Harari open → Where does agency come from? today · Michael Levin open → Whose values, when we align? 2020s · Stuart Russell open → Why does it feel like anything? 1995 · David Chalmers open → Would superintelligence be dangerous by default? 2014 · Nick Bostrom open → the delta — every channel and tributary reaches the present

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