Markus Gabriel an internationally acclaimed philosopher and holds the Chair in Epistemology, Modern and Contemporary Philosophy at the University of Bonn. He is the Director of the Center for Science and Thought as well as Chairman of the International Centre for Philosophy NRW.

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. 

"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.

Bernardo Kastrup is a Dutch computer scientist, philosopher, and one of the most prominent defenders of "metaphysical idealism" - the notion that reality is essentially mental - 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.

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.