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Closer To Truth — 300 episodes

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Arnold Zuboff on Why You Are Every Conscious Being

2

Rebecca Newberger Goldstein on The Mattering Instinct

3

What Is The Far Future Of Intelligence

4

Roman Yampolskiy on How Dangerous Is Artificial Intelligence

5

Michael James on What the World Is According to Sri Ramana

6

Current Arguments for God

7

Can Brain Alone Explain Consciousness?

8

Asking Ultimate Questions

9

Why a Landscape of Consciousness?

10

What Life Might Come After Death?

11

Could Theories of Consciousness Affect Life After Death?

12

Raymond Tallis on the Mystery of Human Beings

13

What do Theories of Consciousness Mean?

14

Can Art Harmonize Diverse Religions?

15

Vlatko Vedral on Portals to a New Reality

16

Can Art Affect Belief Systems?

17

Roger Penrose on Cosmology, Quantum Mechanics, and Deep Reality

18

Toward a Cognitive Science of Transcendence

19

Dean Radin on The Science of Magic and The Fabric of Reality

20

Is Mathematics Invented or Discovered?

21

Global Philosophy: Why Inner Life Practices?

22

Blaise Agüera y Arcas: What is Intelligence in an AI Future?

23

Global Philosophy: What is the Person?

24

Stephen Wolfram on The Concept of the Ruliad

25

Global Philosophy: Is God Ultimate?

26

Daniel Whiteson on Aliens, Physics, and the Nature of Reaity

27

Death, Life After Death, & Reincarnation

28

Is Consciousness Ultimate?

29

Roger Penrose on Deep Reality and Quantum Mechanics

30

Is Mathematics Eternal?

31

What is Global Philosophy of Religion?

32

Stephen Wolfram on Physics and Computation

33

What Does Transhumanism Foreshadow?

34

Can We Explore Transcendence Via Art and Mind?

35

Can Philosophy Discern Sex and Gender?

36

Can Near-Death Experiences Affect Consciousness Theories?

37

Evolution vs. Religion: Anything New?

38

Clément Vidal on Life's Biggest Questions

39

How did Cognition and Emotion Evolve?

40

Mark Bailey on AI: Consciousness, Dangers, and Morality

41

What is Human Nature?

42

Julia Mossbridge on AI: Is There a Soul in the Machine?

43

How do Reductionism and Emergence Dance?

44

James Hughes on AI Consciousness: Buddhism & Posthuman Futures

45

What are Units or Levels of Selection?

46

Zoltan Istvan on AI: Transhumanism and Deepfakes

47

How Can Philosophy Probe Evolutionary Biology?

48

Chris French on the Science of Weird Shit

49

What Would Alien Life & Intelligences Mean?

50

Jonathan Schooler on the Psychology of Artificial Intelligence

51

Joseph Corabi: Could Superintelligent AI Defeat Itself?

52

Eastern Traditions: What are Ultimate Existence and Essence?

53

Zorana Pringle on the Science of Creativity & Decision-Making

54

Can Dualism Explain Consciousness?

55

Robin Hanson on the Age of AI and Large Language Models

56

Terry Sejnowski on ChatGPT and the Future of AI

57

What is the Philosophy of Scientific Breakthroughs?

58

Aspects of Consciousness

59

What is Extended Mind?

60

Does a Fine-Tuned Universe Lead to God?

61

Annaka Harria on Consciousness and the Cosmos

62

Do Human Brains Have Free Will?

63

Janna Levin on Cosmology: Black Holes, the Big Bang, and More

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Implications of Cosmology?

65

Philip Goff and Helen De Cruz on Finding (and Losing) Their Religion

66

Why Explore Consciousness and Cosmos?

67

Nathan Lents on The Sexual Evolution

68

The Ultimate Questions of Existence

69

Why is the Quantum So Strange?

70

Richard Swinburne on Evil, Atonement, and Evidence Against God

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Robert Lawrence Kuhn on "A Landscape of Consciousness"

72

How is God the Creator?

73

What's Real About Time?

74

Arguments Against God?

75

What is the Large-Scale Structure of the Universe?

76

Solutions to the Mind-Body Problem?

77

Sara Imari Walker on Physics, Emergence, and Life on Other Planets

78

Richard Dawkins on Evolution, Atheism, and Aliens

79

Would Intelligent Aliens Undermine God?

80

Greg Epstein on Technology, Morality, and Religion

81

How do Breakthroughs Happen in Physics?

82

What's Beyond Physics?

83

Is Race Real?

84

What are the Limits of Science?

85

What is the Far Future of the Universe?

86

David Papineau on Consciousness, Physics, & the Mind-Body Problem

87

How Do Human Brains Think and Feel?

88

Is Consciousness Ultimate Reality?

89

Does the Cosmos Provide Meaning?

90

What is God?

91

Or Graur on the Big Bang and the Physics of Galaxies

92

Can We Survive Death?

93

Does Philosophy Help Science?

94

Is Human Consciousness Special?

95

Ned Block on Perception, Cognition, and Consciousness

96

Are Plants Sentient?

97

Are Suffering and Ritual Vital?

98

Why is There Anything at All?

99

Brian Swimme on Consciousness, Cultural Evolution, and the Noosphere

100

What is Evolutionary Developmental Biology?

101

Eastern Traditions: What is the Human Person?

102

Sean Carroll on Physics, the Multiverse, and Quantum Mechanics

103

What are Scientific Breakthroughs in Biology?

104

Why are Black Holes so Astonishing?

105

Anna Abraham on the Neuroscience of the Creative Brain

106

Robert Wright on Evolution and the Future of Humanity

107

Eastern Traditions: What is World? What is Reality?

108

Nick Bostrom on Superintelligence and the Future of AI

109

Paul Thagard on AI, Animal Consciousness, and Human Intelligence

110

Helen De Cruz on What Makes Life Worth Living

111

Why Philosophy of Biology?

112

Marcelo Gleiser on Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience

113

Does Consciousness Require a Radical Explanation?

114

What Does the “Unreasonable Effectiveness” of Mathematics Mean?

115

Carlo Rovelli on White Holes

116

Ilia Delio on Evolution, Quantum Physics, and Neuroscience in Theology

117

Can Mathematics Explain Biology?

118

Roger Penrose: Mathematics & What Exists

119

Is Mathematics Invented or Discovered?

120

What is the Deep Meaning of Probability?

121

Martin Rees on Cosmology and Existential Risk

122

When Brains Go Bad

123

Jesus as God: A Philosophical Inquiry

124

Freeman Dyson: From Physics to the Far Future

125

How Does the Subconscious Affect Us?

126

What Are Breakthroughs in Mathematics?

127

Terrence Deacon on the Noosphere

128

Philip Goff on the Purpose of the Universe

129

Why is Mathematics True and Beautiful?

130

Can We Survive Death?

131

Can Art Probe Creativity?

132

What Makes Brains Conscious?

133

Dan Dennett on the Mysteries of the Mind

134

Will Kinney on Cosmic Inflation and the Beginning of the Universe

135

The Marvels of Space-Time

136

Samuel Lebens on Jewish Philosophy

137

What Exists?

138

What Are Dreams About?

139

What is Time?

140

Do Angels and Demons Exist?

141

Dr. Aomawa Shields on Life on Other Planets

142

How to Decipher Deception in Evolution?

143

Paul Davies on What’s Eating the Universe (Part 2)

144

Paul Davies on What’s Eating the Universe (Part 1)

145

How Do Humans Differ from Other Animals?

146

Frank Wilczek on the Future of Science (Part 2)

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Frank Wilczek on the Future of Science (Part 1)

148

Can Art Clarify The Mind-Body Problem?

149

Sara Manning Peskin on the Deepest Mysteries of our Brains

150

What are Scientific Breakthroughs in Physics?

151

Did the Universe Have a Beginning?

152

How Does Deception Affect Human Behavior?

153

Tim Palmer on Doubt: From Quantum Physics to Climate Change

154

Where Are They, All Those Aliens?

155

Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam on How Thinking Emerged from Chaos

156

The Multiverse: What’s Real?

157

Michio Kaku on Quantum Supremacy

158

Hilary Lawson on Closure

159

Are There Extra Dimensions?

160

Manil Suri on How to Build the Universe with Math

161

Why is Consciousness Baffling?

162

What is Philosophy of the Breakthrough Process?

163

Nicholas Humphrey on Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness

164

Is Time Travel Possible?

165

Jill Tarter on Alien Intelligences, Extraterrestrial Technology, and SETI

166

What are Scientific Breakthroughs in Physics?

167

Sean Carroll on the Biggest Ideas in the Universe

168

Is Death Final?

169

Donald Hoffman on Reality, Consciousness, and Conscious Agents

170

What are Scientific Breakthroughs in Biology?

171

Sabine Hossenfelder on Physics and the Big Questions

172

How the Subconscious Affects Us

173

Stephon Alexander on the Fear of a Black Universe

174

What is Philosophy of Biology?

175

Noam Chomsky on Closer To Truth’s Big Questions (Part 4)

176

Noam Chomsky on Linguistic Theories and the Evolution of Language (Part 3)

177

Noam Chomsky on Theories of Linguistics (Part 2)

178

Noam Chomsky on Intellectual History and Reflections (Part 1)

179

Sir Roger Penrose on Consciousness and New Physics

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Sir Roger Penrose on Spacetime, Quantum Mechanics, and General Relativity

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Sir Roger Penrose on Mathematics and World Reflections

182

What's Beyond Physics?

183

Can the Brain Explain Art?

184

What is Philosophy of Art?

185

Can Metaphysics Discover Surprises?

186

The Mystery of Existence

187

Does Information Create the Cosmos?

188

Big Questions in Free Will (Part 1)

189

What Exists? (Part 2)

190

Can the Cosmos Have a Reason?

191

Can Brain Explain Mind?

192

Where are All Those Aliens?

193

Big Questions in Free Will (Part 2)

194

What is the Mind-Body Problem?

195

Why a Fine-Tuned Universe?

196

Why is There Something Rather Than Nothing?

197

How Could God Interact with the World?

198

Toward a Science of Consciousness

199

Did Our Universe Have a Beginning?

200

Arguing God from Design

201

What are Dreams About?

202

Did God Create Time?

203

Could Our Universe Be a Fake?

204

Do Persons Have Souls?

205

Why is There Anything at All? (Part 2)

206

Arguing God's Existence

207

Is Consciousness an Illusion?

208

Is the Universe Fine-Tuned for Life and Mind?

209

Can Design Point to God?

210

Are Brain and Mind the Same Thing?

211

How Does Beauty Color the Cosmos?

212

Does God Make Sense?

213

Why is Consciousness so Mysterious?

214

Is This the End Time?

215

How do Brains Work?

216

Can Science Deal With God?

217

Arguing God From Morality

218

Confronting Consciousness

219

What Things Really Exist?

220

How Can God Not be Free?

221

How Are Brains Structured?

222

How Vast is the Cosmos?

223

Arguing God From First Cause

224

What is Truth?

225

Why Anything at All? (Part 2)

226

Can the Brain Explain Art?

227

Can Art Clarify the Mind-Body Problem?

228

What is Philosophy of Art?

229

What Exists II?

230

Salvation - A Philosophical Inquiry

231

Atonement - A Philosophical Inquiry

232

Jesus as God - A Philosophical Inquiry

233

What's Strong Emergence?

234

Is the Person All Material?

235

Why is Consciousness Baffling?

236

What is Fine-Tuning in Cosmology?

237

What is Fine-Tuning in Physics?

238

What is Philosophy of Cosmology?

239

Is the Anthropic Principle Significant?

240

The Multiverse: What's Real?

241

What Would Multiple Universes Mean?

242

How Many Universes Exist?

243

Would Multiple Universes Undermine God?

244

Can Religion be Explained without God?

245

What's the New Atheism?

246

Challenges of Analytic Theology

247

What is Analytic Theology?

248

Epistemology: How Do I Know?

249

Cosmology and Creation?

250

Why Consonance in Science and Religion?

251

Do Science & Religion Conflict?

252

What Could ESP Mean?

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Does ESP Reveal Spirit Existence?

254

How Could ESP Work?

255

What is Time?

256

What is Information?

257

Can the Cosmos Have a Reason?

258

Is God Necessary?

259

Wondering about God

260

Death Disrupted?

261

How Could God Make Miracles?

262

Speculating about God?

263

Can Metaphysics Discern God?

264

Does the Cosmos Have a Reason?

265

Can the Mind Heal the Body?

266

What is Consciousness?

267

How Does Personal Identity Persist Through Time?

268

Time at Sea

269

Does Cosmic Fine-Tuning Demand Explanation?

270

Why a Body in a Resurrection?

271

Does Hell Reveal God?

272

What's in a Resurrection?

273

Science and the Future of Humanity

274

Observing Quanta, Observing Nature?

275

Is the Universe Theologically Ambiguous?

276

How Did the Universe Begin?

277

Why Philosophy of Physics & Cosmology?

278

What Maintains Personal Identity?

279

Does Metaphysics Reveal Reality?

280

Is There a Final Theory of Everything?

281

Why Is The Universe Breathtaking?

282

Must Multiple Universes Exist?

283

What Does An Expanding Universe Mean?

284

Can Metaphysics Discover Surprises?

285

The Mystery of Existence

286

What's Beyond Physics?

287

Does ESP Reveal Spirit Existence?

288

Why Is Free Will A Mystery?

289

Can Free Will Survive God's Foreknowledge?

290

Does God's Knowledge Ruin Free Will?

291

If God Knows the Future, What is Free Will?

292

Arguing God with Analytic Philosophy

293

Fallacies in Proving God Exists

294

How To Think About God's Existence

295

What Is Ultimate Reality?

296

What Things Are Real?

297

How Can Emergence Explain Reality?

298

Is God Responsible For Evil?

299

Does Evil Disprove God?

300

Did God Create Evil?