People we would love to interview.

"Why do analogies carry so much of what intelligence actually is?"

Because of her fascinating work on analogy, complexity, and what today's AI still misunderstands about understanding.

"Is the self a pattern, a story, or a strange loop we keep learning to recognize?"

Because of his fascinating work on strange loops, selfhood, analogy, and the shimmering border between mind and meaning.

"What can fiction ask about technology that product language cannot?"

Because of his fascinating stories about technology, language, faith, grief, and the moral weather around invention.

"If bodies are problem-solving collectives, where does a self begin?"

Because of his fascinating work on bioelectricity, regeneration, and intelligence as something cells and bodies do together.

"What would it mean to have a physics of becoming?"

Because of her fascinating work on life as a physical phenomenon, and on the deep relationship between time, information, and complexity.

"When a voice can be modeled, owned, shared, and remixed, what remains personal?"

Because of their fascinating work on voice, consent, model culture, and what art becomes when authorship is shared with machines.

"If perception is a kind of prediction, what makes the world feel real?"

Because of his fascinating work on consciousness, perception, and the brain's role in constructing the feeling of being a self.

"Where does a mind stop when its tools start thinking with it?"

Because of his fascinating work on predictive processing, embodiment, and the way minds spill into tools, habits, and worlds.

"What makes a system feel alive rather than merely random?"

Because of his fascinating work on ambient music, generative systems, oblique strategies, and attention as a creative material.

"How do designed systems shape what we are capable of caring about?"

Because of his fascinating work on games, agency, gamification, trust, and how systems train our attention.

"What does intelligence look like when it is distributed across people, tools, and time?"

Because of his fascinating work on complexity, evolution, intelligence, institutions, and the strange lives of systems.

"What if feelings are not readouts from the body, but constructions the body helps author?"

Because of her fascinating work on emotion, prediction, interoception, and the way the body participates in making a mind.

"What changes when design stops imposing form and starts cultivating it?"

Because of her fascinating work on material ecology, biological fabrication, and the future of design as collaboration with living systems.

"What do we lose when we explain experience too quickly?"

Because of her fascinating work on consciousness, wonder, attention, and the humility required by unsolved questions.

"How do you stay open to the future without becoming naive about it?"

Because of his fascinating long view on technology, tools, systems, and the disciplined optimism of making things.