Meaning of Life Video Interviews by Robert Wright

Freeman Dyson is professor emeritus of physics at the Institute for Advanced Study. For more info go to www.meaningoflife.tv.

Joseph Goldstein is a cofounder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, where he is one of the resident guiding teachers.

Sharon Salzberg is a cofounder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, where she is one of the resident guiding teachers.

Huston Smith is Thomas J. Watson Professor of Religion and Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, Syracuse University.

Brian Swimme is a mathematical cosmologist on the graduate faculty of the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco.

Keith Ward is Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford University. For more info go to www.meaningoflife.tv.

Edward O. Wilson is Pellegrino University Professor emeritus at Harvard.

Daniel C. Dennett is University Professor and Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, and Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University.

John Maynard Smith, who died in 2004 at the age of 84, was one of the major figures in 20th century evolutionary biology. He was professor emeritus at the University of Sussex.

Steven Pinker is Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University.