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Closer To Truth presents the world’s greatest thinkers exploring humanity’s deepest questions in Cosmos, Life, Mind, and Meaning.
Unknown Host hosts Closer To Truth, a education show with 300 episodes published.
Everything we know, everything we think, comes from our brain. Are brains our window to reality, seeing what truly exists? Or are we bound by brains, mental slaves of the meat in our heads? Featuring interviews with Chri
Celia Deane-Drummond talks the evolution of wisdom, COVID-19 and the boundary between natural and moral evil, Christian theology, and redeeming sin. She also discusses her book, Shadow Sophia, the second volume in her Ev
Is there more than one universe? According to current cosmology, our entire gigantic universe is only one of innumerable universes, each universe like one tiny bubble in a limitless ocean of universes. What could all thi
What is “nothing”? What does it mean for nothing to exist—or for nothing to have ever existed? In this episode, Robert Lawrence Kuhn explores one of philosophy’s deepest questions: Why is there something rather than noth
How do natural laws shape human societies? In this conversation, Saleem Ali discusses Earthly Order: How Natural Laws Define Human Life , exploring connections between natural systems, social organization, economics, and
What can Galileo still teach us about science, truth, and discovery? In this conversation, Mario Livio discusses Galileo’s scientific legacy, the Hubble Space Telescope, science denial, exoplanets, cosmology, and the fut
Do we really have free will? In this conversation, Gregg Caruso explores the philosophy of free will, moral responsibility, determinism, compatibilism, libertarian free will, and free will skepticism. Discussing themes f
How do we measure the expansion of the universe? In this conversation, Wendy Freedman discusses the Hubble constant, standard candles, redshift, and the ongoing effort to determine the age, size, and evolution of the uni
What does evolution imply about human nature and human value? In this conversation, Michael Ruse explores the philosophy of biology, the mechanistic view of life, human exceptionalism, and the relationship between evolut
How did the universe begin—and what determines the laws of physics we observe? In this conversation, Thomas Hertog discusses On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking’s Final Theory, presenting a new approach to cosmology d
Can virtual worlds be genuinely real? In this conversation, David Chalmers explores the philosophical implications of virtual reality, simulation theory, and digital existence. Discussing themes from his book Reality+, C
In this conversation, Anil Seth discusses a new scientific approach to consciousness — moving beyond the traditional “hard problem” toward explaining the actual properties of conscious experience. Robert Lawrence Kuhn an
Why do we need philosophy to understand evolution? Robert Lawrence Kuhn explores the philosophy of evolutionary biology — not just how evolution works, but what its core concepts really mean. Through conversations with E
What if the boundaries between you and every other conscious being are an illusion? Philosopher Arnold Zuboff makes the case for Universalism — the radical view that first-person immediacy, not any particular body or ori
Philosopher Rebecca Newberger Goldstein introduces the idea of the “mattering instinct”—the deep human drive to see our lives as significant. In this conversation, she explores how our longing to matter may arise from th
What might intelligence become—not just in centuries, but across millions or even billions of years? Robert explores the deepest questions about the far future of intelligence in the universe. While we often think in ter
We may be creating something a million times smarter than all of humanity combined — and we have no plan for what happens next. AI safety pioneer Roman Yampolskiy lays out the risks, the arguments, and whether any soluti
Is the world we experience truly real, or is it more like a dream we haven't yet woken up from? Michael James, a leading scholar and translator of the teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi, explores how Ramana's philosophy ch
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David Chalmers
The hard problem of consciousness · New York University
2 appearances on this show
Anil Seth
Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience · University of Sussex
1 appearance on this show
Richard Dawkins
ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author · Federated Farmers
1 appearance on this show
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
MacArthur Fellow and National Humanities Medalist
1 appearance on this show
Paul Davies
Regents' Professor of Physics and Director of the Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science · Arizona State University
2 appearances on this show
Lawrence Krauss
theoretical physicist and cosmologist · The Origins Project Foundation
2 appearances on this show
Rebecca Goldstein
American philosopher and novelist
1 appearance on this show
Max Tegmark
MIT professor · Future of Life Institute
1 appearance on this show
Anjan Chatterjee
professor of neurology, psychology, and architecture · Penn Center for Neuroaesthetics
1 appearance on this show
Sir Roger Penrose
Sir
1 appearance on this show
Roman V. Yampolskiy
University of Louisville
1 appearance on this show
Vlatko Vedral
Oxford
1 appearance on this show
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