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Closer To Truth — 306 episodes
Michael Ruse on Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, and Philosophy of Biology
Thomas Hertog on the Origin of Time
David Chalmers on Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy
Anil Seth on a New Science of Consciousness
Why Philosophy of Evolutionary Biology?
Arnold Zuboff on Why You Are Every Conscious Being
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein on The Mattering Instinct
What Is The Far Future Of Intelligence
Roman Yampolskiy on How Dangerous Is Artificial Intelligence
Michael James on What the World Is According to Sri Ramana
Current Arguments for God
Can Brain Alone Explain Consciousness?
Asking Ultimate Questions
Why a Landscape of Consciousness?
What Life Might Come After Death?
Could Theories of Consciousness Affect Life After Death?
Raymond Tallis on the Mystery of Human Beings
What do Theories of Consciousness Mean?
Can Art Harmonize Diverse Religions?
Vlatko Vedral on Portals to a New Reality
Can Art Affect Belief Systems?
Roger Penrose on Cosmology, Quantum Mechanics, and Deep Reality
Toward a Cognitive Science of Transcendence
Dean Radin on The Science of Magic and The Fabric of Reality
Is Mathematics Invented or Discovered?
Global Philosophy: Why Inner Life Practices?
Blaise Agüera y Arcas: What is Intelligence in an AI Future?
Global Philosophy: What is the Person?
Stephen Wolfram on The Concept of the Ruliad
Global Philosophy: Is God Ultimate?
Daniel Whiteson on Aliens, Physics, and the Nature of Reaity
Death, Life After Death, & Reincarnation
Is Consciousness Ultimate?
Roger Penrose on Deep Reality and Quantum Mechanics
Is Mathematics Eternal?
What is Global Philosophy of Religion?
Stephen Wolfram on Physics and Computation
What Does Transhumanism Foreshadow?
Can We Explore Transcendence Via Art and Mind?
Can Philosophy Discern Sex and Gender?
Can Near-Death Experiences Affect Consciousness Theories?
Evolution vs. Religion: Anything New?
Clément Vidal on Life's Biggest Questions
How did Cognition and Emotion Evolve?
Mark Bailey on AI: Consciousness, Dangers, and Morality
What is Human Nature?
Julia Mossbridge on AI: Is There a Soul in the Machine?
How do Reductionism and Emergence Dance?
James Hughes on AI Consciousness: Buddhism & Posthuman Futures
What are Units or Levels of Selection?
Zoltan Istvan on AI: Transhumanism and Deepfakes
How Can Philosophy Probe Evolutionary Biology?
Chris French on the Science of Weird Shit
What Would Alien Life & Intelligences Mean?
Jonathan Schooler on the Psychology of Artificial Intelligence
Joseph Corabi: Could Superintelligent AI Defeat Itself?
Eastern Traditions: What are Ultimate Existence and Essence?
Zorana Pringle on the Science of Creativity & Decision-Making
Can Dualism Explain Consciousness?
Robin Hanson on the Age of AI and Large Language Models
Terry Sejnowski on ChatGPT and the Future of AI
What is the Philosophy of Scientific Breakthroughs?
Aspects of Consciousness
What is Extended Mind?
Does a Fine-Tuned Universe Lead to God?
Annaka Harria on Consciousness and the Cosmos
Do Human Brains Have Free Will?
Janna Levin on Cosmology: Black Holes, the Big Bang, and More
Implications of Cosmology?
Philip Goff and Helen De Cruz on Finding (and Losing) Their Religion
Why Explore Consciousness and Cosmos?
Nathan Lents on The Sexual Evolution
The Ultimate Questions of Existence
Why is the Quantum So Strange?
Richard Swinburne on Evil, Atonement, and Evidence Against God
Robert Lawrence Kuhn on "A Landscape of Consciousness"
How is God the Creator?
What's Real About Time?
Arguments Against God?
What is the Large-Scale Structure of the Universe?
Solutions to the Mind-Body Problem?
Sara Imari Walker on Physics, Emergence, and Life on Other Planets
Richard Dawkins on Evolution, Atheism, and Aliens
Would Intelligent Aliens Undermine God?
Greg Epstein on Technology, Morality, and Religion
How do Breakthroughs Happen in Physics?
What's Beyond Physics?
Is Race Real?
What are the Limits of Science?
What is the Far Future of the Universe?
David Papineau on Consciousness, Physics, & the Mind-Body Problem
How Do Human Brains Think and Feel?
Is Consciousness Ultimate Reality?
Does the Cosmos Provide Meaning?
What is God?
Or Graur on the Big Bang and the Physics of Galaxies
Can We Survive Death?
Does Philosophy Help Science?
Is Human Consciousness Special?
Ned Block on Perception, Cognition, and Consciousness
Are Plants Sentient?
Are Suffering and Ritual Vital?
Why is There Anything at All?
Brian Swimme on Consciousness, Cultural Evolution, and the Noosphere
What is Evolutionary Developmental Biology?
Eastern Traditions: What is the Human Person?
Sean Carroll on Physics, the Multiverse, and Quantum Mechanics
What are Scientific Breakthroughs in Biology?
Why are Black Holes so Astonishing?
Anna Abraham on the Neuroscience of the Creative Brain
Robert Wright on Evolution and the Future of Humanity
Eastern Traditions: What is World? What is Reality?
Nick Bostrom on Superintelligence and the Future of AI
Paul Thagard on AI, Animal Consciousness, and Human Intelligence
Helen De Cruz on What Makes Life Worth Living
Why Philosophy of Biology?
Marcelo Gleiser on Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience
Does Consciousness Require a Radical Explanation?
What Does the “Unreasonable Effectiveness” of Mathematics Mean?
Carlo Rovelli on White Holes
Ilia Delio on Evolution, Quantum Physics, and Neuroscience in Theology
Can Mathematics Explain Biology?
Roger Penrose: Mathematics & What Exists
Is Mathematics Invented or Discovered?
What is the Deep Meaning of Probability?
Martin Rees on Cosmology and Existential Risk
When Brains Go Bad
Jesus as God: A Philosophical Inquiry
Freeman Dyson: From Physics to the Far Future
How Does the Subconscious Affect Us?
What Are Breakthroughs in Mathematics?
Terrence Deacon on the Noosphere
Philip Goff on the Purpose of the Universe
Why is Mathematics True and Beautiful?
Can We Survive Death?
Can Art Probe Creativity?
What Makes Brains Conscious?
Dan Dennett on the Mysteries of the Mind
Will Kinney on Cosmic Inflation and the Beginning of the Universe
The Marvels of Space-Time
Samuel Lebens on Jewish Philosophy
What Exists?
What Are Dreams About?
What is Time?
Do Angels and Demons Exist?
Dr. Aomawa Shields on Life on Other Planets
How to Decipher Deception in Evolution?
Paul Davies on What’s Eating the Universe (Part 2)
Paul Davies on What’s Eating the Universe (Part 1)
How Do Humans Differ from Other Animals?
Frank Wilczek on the Future of Science (Part 2)
Frank Wilczek on the Future of Science (Part 1)
Can Art Clarify The Mind-Body Problem?
Sara Manning Peskin on the Deepest Mysteries of our Brains
What are Scientific Breakthroughs in Physics?
Did the Universe Have a Beginning?
How Does Deception Affect Human Behavior?
Tim Palmer on Doubt: From Quantum Physics to Climate Change
Where Are They, All Those Aliens?
Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam on How Thinking Emerged from Chaos
The Multiverse: What’s Real?
Michio Kaku on Quantum Supremacy
Hilary Lawson on Closure
Are There Extra Dimensions?
Manil Suri on How to Build the Universe with Math
Why is Consciousness Baffling?
What is Philosophy of the Breakthrough Process?
Nicholas Humphrey on Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness
Is Time Travel Possible?
Jill Tarter on Alien Intelligences, Extraterrestrial Technology, and SETI
What are Scientific Breakthroughs in Physics?
Sean Carroll on the Biggest Ideas in the Universe
Is Death Final?
Donald Hoffman on Reality, Consciousness, and Conscious Agents
What are Scientific Breakthroughs in Biology?
Sabine Hossenfelder on Physics and the Big Questions
How the Subconscious Affects Us
Stephon Alexander on the Fear of a Black Universe
What is Philosophy of Biology?
Noam Chomsky on Closer To Truth’s Big Questions (Part 4)
Noam Chomsky on Linguistic Theories and the Evolution of Language (Part 3)
Noam Chomsky on Theories of Linguistics (Part 2)
Noam Chomsky on Intellectual History and Reflections (Part 1)
Sir Roger Penrose on Consciousness and New Physics
Sir Roger Penrose on Spacetime, Quantum Mechanics, and General Relativity
Sir Roger Penrose on Mathematics and World Reflections
What's Beyond Physics?
Can the Brain Explain Art?
What is Philosophy of Art?
Can Metaphysics Discover Surprises?
The Mystery of Existence
Can Art Clarify the Mind-Body Problem?
Does Information Create the Cosmos?
Big Questions in Free Will (Part 1)
What Exists? (Part 2)
Can the Cosmos Have a Reason?
Can Brain Explain Mind?
Where are All Those Aliens?
Big Questions in Free Will (Part 2)
What is the Mind-Body Problem?
Why a Fine-Tuned Universe?
Why is There Something Rather Than Nothing?
How Could God Interact with the World?
Toward a Science of Consciousness
Did Our Universe Have a Beginning?
Arguing God from Design
What are Dreams About?
Did God Create Time?
Could Our Universe Be a Fake?
Do Persons Have Souls?
Why is There Anything at All? (Part 2)
Arguing God's Existence
Is Consciousness an Illusion?
Is the Universe Fine-Tuned for Life and Mind?
Can Design Point to God?
Are Brain and Mind the Same Thing?
How Does Beauty Color the Cosmos?
Does God Make Sense?
Why is Consciousness so Mysterious?
Is This the End Time?
How do Brains Work?
Can Science Deal With God?
Arguing God From Morality
Confronting Consciousness
What Things Really Exist?
How Can God Not be Free?
How Are Brains Structured?
How Vast is the Cosmos?
Arguing God From First Cause
What is Truth?
Why Anything at All? (Part 2)
Can the Brain Explain Art?
Can Art Clarify the Mind-Body Problem?
What is Philosophy of Art?
What Exists II?
Salvation - A Philosophical Inquiry
Atonement - A Philosophical Inquiry
Jesus as God - A Philosophical Inquiry
What's Strong Emergence?
Is the Person All Material?
Why is Consciousness Baffling?
What is Fine-Tuning in Cosmology?
What is Fine-Tuning in Physics?
What is Philosophy of Cosmology?
Is the Anthropic Principle Significant?
The Multiverse: What's Real?
What Would Multiple Universes Mean?
How Many Universes Exist?
Would Multiple Universes Undermine God?
Can Religion be Explained without God?
What's the New Atheism?
Challenges of Analytic Theology
What is Analytic Theology?
Epistemology: How Do I Know?
Cosmology and Creation?
Why Consonance in Science and Religion?
Do Science & Religion Conflict?
What Could ESP Mean?
Does ESP Reveal Spirit Existence?
How Could ESP Work?
What is Time?
What is Information?
Can the Cosmos Have a Reason?
Is God Necessary?
Wondering about God
Death Disrupted?
How Could God Make Miracles?
Speculating about God?
Can Metaphysics Discern God?
Does the Cosmos Have a Reason?
Can the Mind Heal the Body?
What is Consciousness?
How Does Personal Identity Persist Through Time?
Time at Sea
Does Cosmic Fine-Tuning Demand Explanation?
Why a Body in a Resurrection?
Does Hell Reveal God?
What's in a Resurrection?
Science and the Future of Humanity
Observing Quanta, Observing Nature?
Is the Universe Theologically Ambiguous?
How Did the Universe Begin?
Why Philosophy of Physics & Cosmology?
What Maintains Personal Identity?
Does Metaphysics Reveal Reality?
Is There a Final Theory of Everything?
Why Is The Universe Breathtaking?
Must Multiple Universes Exist?
What Does An Expanding Universe Mean?
Can Metaphysics Discover Surprises?
The Mystery of Existence
What's Beyond Physics?
Does ESP Reveal Spirit Existence?
Why Is Free Will A Mystery?
Can Free Will Survive God's Foreknowledge?
Does God's Knowledge Ruin Free Will?
If God Knows the Future, What is Free Will?
Arguing God with Analytic Philosophy
Fallacies in Proving God Exists
How To Think About God's Existence
What Is Ultimate Reality?
What Things Are Real?
How Can Emergence Explain Reality?
Is God Responsible For Evil?
Does Evil Disprove God?
Did God Create Evil?