Closer To Truth
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27 seasons and counting exploring fundamental questions in Cosmos, Life, Mind, and Meaning with the world's top thinkers and scientists.
Clément Vidal joins Closer to Truth to share his work on asking the right questions in life. We discuss shaping world views, scientific models, and the biggest questions of the universe. youtu.be/T5DgYYGShSs
MIT @techreview senior editor, Will Douglas Heaven, on the five most important ideas in AI currently. technologyreview.com/2025/07/22/112…
Many are skeptical pantheism and theistic beliefs. While atheism is intriguing in its scientific rigor, it doesn't have all the answers to the big questions. What else is out there? What does deism offer us? youtube.com/watch?v=bRjgZ5…
From philosophy to psychology, the idea of 'nothing' is central to the universe, existence and experience as a whole. But the nature of 'nothing' is even more bewildering than we might first imagine. Why nothing is impossible @IAI_TV iai.tv/video/the-limi…
Artificial intelligence software is designing novel experimental protocols that improve upon the work of human physicists, although the humans are still “doing a lot of baby-sitting.” quantamagazine.org/ai-comes-up-wi…
What are the arguments for pan psychism? We ask @Philip_Goff for answers: youtube.com/watch?v=_tvO9n…
Our friends at the University of Latvia are looking for submissions to the upcoming international conference, The Grammar of Time: Ontologies and Practices Across Cultures. Details on the conference and the submission guidelines below: conferences.lu.lv/event/764/atta…
Can we use metaphysics to discern God analytically or philosophically? We ask philosopher David Bentley Hart if metaphysics can give us a deep sense that God is a reasonable prospect if not flat out proof. youtube.com/watch?v=WnSl3o…
In our everyday lives we act as though we are all separate individuals, but is this really the case? Theologian Jessica Frazier argues that it really is all connected and we can look to Indian philosophy for answers. Read more from @IAI_TV: iai.tv/video/indian-p…
John Dupré on the problems with evolutionary psychology.
Our good friend and CTT contributor John Leslie was recently interviewed for Religious Studies from @CambridgeUP. Read about John's time working in advertising before he became a philosopher, his development and defense of Axiarchism, and more. philpapers.org/archive/LOUAIW…
Joshua @swamidass shares the most important thing that hard science can bring to the sensitive and diverse matters of human sexuality and sexual behavior. youtube.com/watch?v=H_TDn0…
“A scientific world-view which does not profoundly come to terms with the problem of conscious minds can have no serious pretensions of completeness.” ― Roger Penrose
Are there higher dimensions or realities we can't perceive?
What is the value of religion outside of cultural norms and self interest? We ask Philosopher Holes Rolston to share on what religion can offer in our modern times and how it can complement science. youtube.com/watch?v=TYRkP1…
Mysterious Antimatter Physics Discovered at the Large Hadron Collider: The LHCb experiment has observed a new difference between matter and antimatter in particles called baryons bit.ly/3IyM6E0
"Biology is the science. Evolution is the concept that makes biology unique." -Jared Diamond
We delve into a new area: The consciousness of characters in fiction. A consciousness that offers insights into other minds that we can't get from real people. Are these real insights and are there any greater lessons in human consciousness? youtube.com/watch?v=D9hOzj…