Donald Hoffman is an American cognitive psychologist working at the University of California, Irvine. He is making waves with a new theory suggesting that, instead of presenting reality as it "really is", our perception is like a desktop interface enabling us to use reality effectively.

Hoffman's book, The Case Against Reality, fleshes out the notion that we do not perceive reality objectively, and argues for a mathematical, rather than spatio-temporal, model of reality.

"One of the deepest and most original thinkers of his generation” – Steven Pinker

Curt Jaimungal is a renowned filmmaker and presenter. He is founder and host of the legendary Theories of Everything YouTube podcast that explores cutting-edge topics in physics, consciousness, free will, AI and transhumanism with some of the leading experts in the world.

"The brain doesn't generate mind in the same way that a whirlpool doesn't generate water."

Bernardo Kastrup is a Dutch computer scientist, philosopher, and one of the most prominent defenders of "metaphysical idealism" - the notion that the world originates in the mind, instead of being independent of our experience - in the academic world today.

Bernardo has worked as a scientist in leading laboratories across the world including CERN and the Philips Research Laboratories, and he is a regular contributor to Scientific American.
As developed in such texts as Why Materialism is Baloney and The Idea of the World, Bernardo's stance is that "the body is in mind, not mind in the body"

Susan Schneider is the Founding Director of the Centre for the Future Mind at Florida Atlantic University (FAU), the former Distinguished Scholar at the Library of Congress, the author of Artificial You: AI and the Future of Mind and the former NASA Chair at NASA.

Her work has been covered in venues such as the BBC, the NY Times, PBS, Forbes Magazine, the History Channel, and the Washington Post.