What are the essential differences between culture and society? How do we protect cultural integrity from the increasingly “personal” encroachments of techno-society? What is the beautiful necessity?

What makes embodied information processing distinct from artificial intelligence? What is sentience? How is it qualified in human experience?

What is Communication? What happens to Democracy if we cannot achieve it? Who is responsible for ensuring its survival?

What does it mean to “think” in 21st-century techno-society? How do we know it when we see it? What will happen if we cannot achieve it?