Do animals have rights and do those rights extend to all animals or do the rights change based on the complexity of the animal?
If scientists could accurately predict who was more likely to commit crimes, what should society do with that information?
Why do we resist doing things that we know are good for our well-being while craving things that are detrimental to our well-being?
“Know thyself” is an ancient concept going back much further than Socrates and is at the root of much of philosophy. With that in mind, what are the most important things to learn about one’s self or is all self-knowledge equal?
Is it be possible for humans to create something completely novel and new that is based on nothing that previously existed? Or is human creativity just rearranging and building on previous ideas?
Assuming evolution is correct, do you think that if humans went extinct another species as intelligent as humans would evolve? If life exists long enough on a planet, is intelligence and consciousness inevitable?