Ten regions of inquiry
The search for the deepest layer of physical law — what the universe is made of and the rules it obeys.
The origin, composition, and ultimate fate of the universe as a whole.
How and why subjective experience arises, and what its relationship to physical processes is.
What quantum mechanics is actually telling us about reality beneath the equations that work.
The nature of mathematical objects and the uncanny effectiveness of mathematics in describing the world.
How non-living chemistry became self-replicating, evolving biology.
The role of information as a possibly fundamental ingredient of physical reality.
What time is, whether it flows, and why it has a direction.
The most basic questions: why anything exists, and whether the universe is fine-tuned or one of many.
Whether life and intelligence are common or rare, and where to look.