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Closer To Truth

Closer To Truth

Closer To Truth presents the world’s greatest thinkers exploring humanity’s deepest questions in Cosmos, Life, Consciousness, and Meaning. Engage new and diverse ways of thinking. Appreciate intense debates. Seek your own answers.

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01:13:41

Janna Levin on Cosmology: Black Holes, the Big Bang,...

Closer To Truth ·

2025/03/05

Help Closer To Truth continue exploring the world's biggest questions with a donation of any amount.Astrophysicist and science visionary Janna Levin discusses all things cosmology: black holes, gravitational waves, the James Webb Space Telescope discoveries, early galaxies, and more. Janna J. Levin is a theoretical cosmologist and a professor of physics and astronomy at Barnard College. She researches black holes, the cosmology of extra dimensions, and gravitational waves in the shape of

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27:11

Implications of Cosmology?

Closer To Truth ·

2025/02/26

Donate to Closer To Truth and help us keep our content free and without paywalls.The universe is strange and wondrous—dauntingly vast, menacingly violent, infinitely complex. The origin of the universe is equally fascinating. There are explanations, but is there a final explanation? Featuring interviews with Alan H. Guth, Andrei Linde, George F. Smoot III, Robert Spitzer, Jill Tarter, and Douglas Vakoch.

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01:14:45

Philip Goff and Helen De Cruz on Finding (and Losing)...

Closer To Truth ·

2025/02/19

Two notable Closer To Truth contributors—and two good friends—discuss their intellectual and spiritual journeys in what seems to be opposite directions: one toward a form of Christianity and the other away from it.Philip Goff is a British author, idealist philosopher, and professor at Durham University whose research focuses on philosophy of mind and consciousness. Specifically, it focuses on how consciousness can be part of the scientific worldview. He is the author most recently of the

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27:10

Why Explore Consciousness and Cosmos?

Closer To Truth ·

2025/02/12

Donate to Closer To Truth and help us keep our content free and without paywalls.Cosmos and consciousness seem utterly different, the former encompassing the vast universe, the latter emerging from tiny brains. Yet consciousness founds most religions, and some cosmologists speak quietly, profoundly, about consciousness. Featuring interviews with David Chalmers, Alexander Vilenkin, David Brin, Colin McGinn, and Paul Davies.

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01:29:53

Nathan Lents on The Sexual Evolution

Closer To Truth ·

2025/02/05

Make a tax-deductible donation of any amount to help us continue exploring the world's deepest questions: https://closertotruth.com/donate/ Evolutionary biologist Nathan Lents argues that many of our supposedly modern ideas about gender and human sexuality are, in fact, deeply rooted in our animal ancestors. In this Chat, Lents discusses his new book, "The Sexual Evolution: How 500 Million Years of Sex, Gender, and Mating Shape Modern Relationships", a fascinating exploration of sexual behavior

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27:17

The Ultimate Questions of Existence

Closer To Truth ·

2025/01/29

Donate to Closer To Truth and help us keep our content free and without paywalls: https://shorturl.at/OnyRq We like pushing boundaries, trying to discern existence, searching the foundations of reality, knowing all that can be known. Overly ambitious? Sophomoric? WeI don't care. We do it anyway. Here are ultimate questions. Featuring interviews with Lawrence Krauss, John Leslie, Max Tegmark, and Paul Davies.

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27:02

Why is the Quantum So Strange?

Closer To Truth ·

2025/01/22

Donate to Closer To Truth and help us keep our content free and without paywalls. What is quantum theory and why is it so strange? To know reality, one must confront the quantum. It is how our world works at the deepest level. What's the quantum? It is bizarre, defying all common sense. Featuring interviews with Wojciech Zurek, Nima Arkani-Hamed, Lee Smolin, and Seth Lloyd.

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01:29:53

Richard Swinburne on Evil, Atonement, and Evidence...

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2025/01/15

Make a donation of any amount to help support Closer To Truth reach new audiences and continue exploring deep questions: https://shorturl.at/OnyRqRobert Lawrence Kuhn sits down with philosopher Richard Swinburne to embark on a retrospective of his views and arguments over his illustrious career. In this episode, they'll explore the problem of evil, atonement, resurrection, and more. Richard Granville Swinburne FBA is an English philosopher. He is an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the

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Robert Lawrence Kuhn on "A Landscape of Consciousness"

Closer To Truth ·

2025/01/08

Support Closer To Truth with a tax-deductible donation of any amount to help us continue exploring in the new year.Closer To Truth host Robert Lawrence Kuhn recently published an extensive new article titled "A Landscape of Consciousness: Toward a taxonomy of explanations and implications". The paper covers the field of consciousness studies in its entirety as well as the consequences of consciousness including artificial intelligence (AI), life after death, and virtual immortality. Read Kuhn's

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27:17

How is God the Creator?

Closer To Truth ·

2024/12/25

Support Closer To Truth this season with a tax-deductible donation. Your contributions directly fuels a new year of exploring life's biggest questions.If God exists, did God create everything? Did God create out of literally "nothing"? Suppose there was no beginning to the cosmos, just the universe going through endless cycles, what then? And what about "abstract objects" like logic and numbers, which seem to exist without any cause and no creator? Featuring interviews with William Craig,

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27:10

What's Real About Time?

Closer To Truth ·

2024/12/18

Support Closer To Truth this holiday season with a tax-deductible donation of any amount. Your contribution directly fuels our exploration of life's biggest questions with new contributors and differing perspectives. Give today. Time seems natural and absolute: the flow of moments one following another from the unknown past to the knife's edge present to the unknowable future. But this is not so. Einstein shocked the world by showing that time was "relative." What's the latest about

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27:17

Arguments Against God?

Closer To Truth ·

2024/12/11

Donate to Closer To Truth and help us continue producing thought-provoking interviews with experts across the globe.All who affirm that God does exist should examine the strong attacks of those who conclude that God does not exist, and then assess the sharp counterattacks of scholarly believers. Belief in God is too important to be determined by cultural circumstances. Featuring interviews with Susan Blackmore, Peter Atkins, Alvin Plantinga, and Steven Weinberg. You can watch the full episode

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27:11

What is the Large-Scale Structure of the Universe?

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2024/12/04

Donate to Closer To Truth this holiday season to help us keep our content free and without paywalls.Galaxies and clusters of galaxies, untold billions of them, adorn the cosmos. How did such large-scale structure of the universe come about? Featuring interviews with John Richard Gott III, Abraham Loeb, George Smoot, and Saul Perlmutter.

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27:10

Solutions to the Mind-Body Problem?

Closer To Truth ·

2024/11/27

Donate to Closer To Truth and help us keep our content free and without paywalls: https://shorturl.at/OnyRqAre human beings purely physical? Evolved at random and destined to die, extinguished forever? Or are we something more? A spirit or a soul, with existence beyond? What's the relationship between our brains and our consciousness, between the stuff in our skulls and the essence in our minds? Featuring interviews with Ned Block, Dean Zimmerman, Colin McGinn, Charles Tart, and Henry

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01:23:04

Sara Imari Walker on Physics, Emergence, and Life on...

Closer To Truth ·

2024/11/20

Make a donation of any amount to help us continue exploring the world's deepest questions with new and exciting thinkers. Astrobiologist and theoretical physicist Sara Imari Walker shares an intriguing new scientific theory that explains what life is and how it emerges. What is life? This is among the most difficult open problems in science, right up there with the nature of consciousness and the existence of matter. All the definitions we have fall short. None help us understand how life

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01:07:10

Richard Dawkins on Evolution, Atheism, and Aliens

Closer To Truth ·

2024/11/13

Support Closer To Truth and help us continue exploring the world's deepest questions with a donation of any amount.Renowned biologist Richard Dawkins discusses his views on topics including philosophy of biology, evolution, atheism and religion, extraterrestrial life, and human and animal culture. Richard Dawkins is a British evolutionary biologist, zoologist, science communicator, and author. He is one of the world’s most eminent writers and thinkers of our time, and a major contributor to

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27:02

Would Intelligent Aliens Undermine God?

Closer To Truth ·

2024/11/06

Make a donation of any amount to help support Closer To Truth: https://shorturl.at/OnyRq Whether extra-terrestrial intelligences exist has profound implications for human religion. We are either alone or not alone in the universe, but no matter the ultimate answer, theists and atheists will each mold that answer, alone or not alone, to fit their opposing worldviews. Featuring interviews with Steven Dick, Russell Stannard, Paul Davies, Robin Collins, and Douglas Vakoch. Closer to Truth presents

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01:05:25

Greg Epstein on Technology, Morality, and Religion

Closer To Truth ·

2024/10/30

Donate to Closer To Truth and help us keep our content free and without paywalls: https://shorturl.at/OnyRqHarvard and MIT's influential humanist chaplain Greg Epstein discusses his new book, Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World's Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation. In our tumultuous era of religious extremism and rampant capitalism, Tech Agnostic offers a new path forward, where we maintain enough critical distance to remember that all that glitters is

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27:02

How do Breakthroughs Happen in Physics?

Closer To Truth ·

2024/10/23

Support Closer To Truth with a donation of any amount to help us continue exploring the world's deepest questions. The nature of scientific Breakthroughs is one approach; the process of scientific Breakthroughs is quite another. When physicists reflect on how they do physics, when physicists review the history of physics, what are the ways in which Breakthroughs occur? Featuring interviews with Robbert Dijkgraaf, Gregory Chaitin, Edward Witten, and Karen Uhlenbeck. Register for free for

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27:15

What's Beyond Physics?

Closer To Truth ·

2024/10/16

Make a donation to Closer To Truth to help us continue exploring the world's deepest questions without the need for paid subscriptions or paywalls. Are there revolutionary discoveries yet to be made? Radical revelations and shocking secrets? Does physical reality go beyond what we know today? Far beyond? Featuring interviews with Lawrence Krauss, Michio Kaku, Rupert Sheldrake, Paul Davies, and David Chalmers.

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