QuestionsGreat Questions

Some questions deserve institutions.

A growing catalogue of questions whose answers could materially alter our understanding of reality or the range of possibilities available to humanity.

001

What is consciousness?

MindMetaphysics

002

What are the fundamental limits of intelligence?

MindMachines

003

Can biological aging become substantially controllable?

Life

004

What is the deepest structure of physical reality?

FrontiersCosmos

005

Can humans build permanent free-space civilizations?

CosmosCivilization

006

What forms of energy abundance are physically and economically achievable?

MatterCivilization

007

Which forms of suffering are technically removable?

LifeSociety

008

How much of personality is biologically constrained?

MindLife

009

What makes civilizations durable?

SocietyCivilization

010

How should artificial intelligence alter the distribution of human labor and agency?

MachinesSociety

011

What is the maximum practical scale of human mobility?

Civilization

012

Could large-scale orbital industry become economically self-sustaining?

CosmosFrontiers

013

What lies beyond the observable universe?

Cosmos

014

Are additional spatial dimensions physically real?

Frontiers

015

How much freedom can a civilization provide without destroying coordination?

SocietyCivilization

016

How should humanity distinguish valuable friction from unnecessary friction?

Society