Today, humanity is reaching new heights of scientific understanding—and at the same time appears to be losing its mind. Why do we find ourselves flooded with fake news, medical quackery, conspiracy theorizing, and “post-truth” rhetoric? Why do we fail to take advantage of the powerful tools of reasoning our best thinkers have discovered over the millennia: logic, critical thinking, probability, correlation and causation, and optimal ways to update our beliefs?
The Beyond Annual Lecture is our premier public event of the year. We ask a scientist or philosopher of international standing to offer a reflective account of their work and interests, and invite them to speculate a little bit "beyond" their normal comfort zone.
Join New York Times bestselling author and renowned physicist Brian Greene to explore the past and future of the cosmos – from the big bang to the closest science can take us to the very end – illuminating essential questions of human existence.
The Beyond Annual Lecture is our premier public event of the year.
The Beyond Annual Lecture is our premier public event of the year. We ask a scientist or philosopher of international standing to offer a reflective account of their work and interests, and invite them to speculate a little bit "beyond" their normal comfort zone.
Stephon Alexander is a theoretical physicist specializing in cosmology, particle physics and quantum gravity (String Theory and Loop Quantum Gravity). He also explores interconnections between music, physics, mathematics and technology though recordings, performance, teaching and public lectures.
The Beyond Annual Lecture is our premier public event of the year. We ask a scientist or philosopher of international standing to offer a reflective account of their work and interests, and invite them to speculate a little bit "beyond" their normal comfort zone.
So, what is life? Following the lecture by Paul Nurse, we will solicit the thoughts of four leading ASU researchers on this most profound of scientific mysteries. Stay with us after the lecture to hear what they have to say.
Cronin and his team work to make artificial life forms, find alien life, understand how information can be encoded into chemicals, and construct chemical computers.
Our technological capacity to make changes to genomic data has expanded exponentially since the 2012 discovery of CRISPR-Cas9 as an RNA-programmable genome editing tool.
If AI succeeds in eclipsing human general intelligence within decades, as many AI researchers predict, then how can we make it the best thing ever to happen to humanity?