Past Chat Topics
| September 19, 2000 | What characteristics of human culture are universal, and what do they tell us about human nature? |
| September 26, 2000 | What are the limitations of the scientific method? Can it be extended to the study of experience from the inside? |
| October 3, 2000 | How did life first originate? How has it been transformed into all the forms alive today and known to have existed in the past? What can an evolutionary perspective tell us about animal/human behavior? |
| October 10, 2000 | What do we mean by intelligence? What does it correlate with? What is it good for? How did it evolve? Are there different kinds of intelligence? |
| October 17, 2000 | Predictions for the twenty-first century |
| October 24, 2000 | What is a high-IQ society for? What can be done to promote the societies? What sorts of projects is it desirable for the societies to undertake? |
| November 14, 2000 | Why do we have emotions? |
| November 21, 2000 | The search for extraterrestrial intelligence |
| February 6, 2001 | The beginning and end of the Universe |
| February 20, 2001 | The Prometheus Society Election |
| March 6, 2001 | Communication Games |
| March 20, 2001 | More Communication Games |
| May 29, 2001 | Computational perspectives on the evolution of life and the universe. |
| April 30, 2002 | Why do we like or dislike music and art? Is `liking' or `disliking' the only way we relate to a work of art? |
| July 29, 2003 | David Seaborg: Animal intelligence and Its Evolution |
| August 5, 2003 | John Wilson: Comparative Mythology |
| August 19, 2003 | David Woolsey: Current Developments and Open Questions in Modern Physics |
| August 26, 2003 | Kevin Langdon: Human Intelligence: What Is Known and Open Questions |