asu | Celebrate five years of intellectual stimulation and excitement with
the Origins Project at Great Debate Transcending Our Origins: Violence,
Humanity, and the Future. Saturday, April 5, 2014 - 7:00pm
The first panel of the evening, The Origins of Violence, will feature scholars and writers Steven Pinker, Richard Wrangham, Erica Chenoweth, Adrian Raine, John Mueller and Sarah Mathew discussing the development of violence from the brain to world wars.
The second panel, The Future: From Medicine and Synthetic Biology to Machine Intelligence, will feature scientists and notable experts Richard Dawkins, Craig Venter, Kim Stanley Robinson, Esther Dyson, Eric Horvitz, George Poste and Randolph Nesse
discussing the future of new biomedical and robotic technologies and
their impact on humanity. The evening will be moderated by Lawrence Krauss.
