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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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01:23:04

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?

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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?

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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?

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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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26:59

Is Race Real?

Closer To Truth ·

2024/10/09

Race is obviously real—historically, socially, politically. What about biologically? We explore biological facts about race and their implications. What’s the relationship between color and race? Are human races subspecies of homo sapiens? Is race a “natural kind?” How to form a coherent theory of race? Featuring interviews with Quayshawn Spencer, Joshua Swamidass, Massimo Pigliucci, and Alexander Rosenberg. Explore all the videos in our new pillar of Life:

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26:33

What are the Limits of Science?

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2024/10/02

To get subscriber-only exclusives, register for free at CTT.com today.How much can science discover? Are there boundaries to science? Are there truths—real truths—beyond science? Featuring interviews with Frank Wilczek, J. Gott, Stephen Wolfram, Bas van Fraassen, and Owen Gingerich.

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27:16

What is the Far Future of the Universe?

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2024/09/25

Donate to Closer To Truth to help us continue exploring the world's deepest questions. When we speak about the future of the universe, we mean when the sun burns out, when galaxies collide, when everything flies apart and ultimately evaporates. Do the untold billions and trillions of years from now make it irrelevant for us today? No. The far far future of the universe conveys meaning now. Featuring interviews with Martin Rees, Wendy Freedman, Abraham Loeb, Alexander Vilenkin, and Robert

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01:14:53

David Papineau on Consciousness, Physics, & the...

Closer To Truth ·

2024/09/18

How do conscious states relate to the rest of reality? Do all animals deserve moral consideration? Can AI be conscious? Philosopher David Papineau discusses the nature of consciousness, the mind-body problem, physicalism versus materialism, and much more. Donate to Closer To Truth to help us keep our content free and without paywalls: https://shorturl.at/OnyRq David Papineau is a British academic philosopher, born in Como, Italy. He works as Professor of Philosophy of Science at King's College

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27:40

How Do Human Brains Think and Feel?

Closer To Truth ·

2024/09/11

Make a tax-deductible donation to Closer To Truth and help us continue exploring life's deepest questions. Nothing means anything without our brains: not science, not theology, not politics, not love. Everything we know and do-all the sense of human thought, all the feelings of human emotion-all are the product of the brains in our heads. Featuring interviews with Rodolfo Llinas, John Mazziotta, Joseph LeDoux, Mike Merzenich, and Eran Zaidel.

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01:14:32

David Papineau on Consciousness, Physics, and the...

Closer To Truth ·

2024/09/04

Philosopher David Papineau discusses the "how, where, and what" of consciousness, solutions to the mind-body problem, naturalism versus physicalism, and more.Show your support for the show with a tax-deductible donation of any amount to help us continue exploring life's deepest questions: https://shorturl.at/SOeum David Papineau is a British academic philosopher. He is a Professor of Philosophy of Science at King's College London and the City University of New York Graduate Center. His research

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26:33

Is Consciousness Ultimate Reality?

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2024/08/28

Get free access to Closer to Truth's library of more than 5,000 videos.Some say that consciousness is the only true reality—that everything else, including the universe, comes from consciousness. If so, how would consciousness relate to the world? Featuring interviews with Deepak Chopra, Donald Hoffman, Neil Theise, Fred Alan Wolf, Frank J. Tipler, and Charles T. Tart.

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27:17

Does the Cosmos Provide Meaning?

Closer To Truth ·

2024/08/21

Register for a free Closer To Truth membership to receive special exclusives, event discounts, and more.We know the age of the universe, how stars were born, how galaxies were formed. But does the cosmos have meaning? Not make-believe, feel-good meaning. But real meaning. Featuring interviews with Saul Perlmutter, Roger Penrose, Paul Steinhardt, Martin Rees, and Frank Drake. Show your support for the show with a tax-deductible donation of any amount to help keep our content free from

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27:01

What is God?

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2024/08/14

Are you a Closer To Truth member? Register for a free account to get special exclusives, event discounts, and more.How can I assess whether God exists without exploring what kind of God is supposed to exist? So I examine God's essence and nature. Featuring interviews with John Polkinghorne, John Behr, John Hick, J.L. Schellenberg, and Timothy O'Connor. Show your support for the show with a tax-deductible donation of any amount to help keep our content free from paywalls:

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01:03:31

Or Graur on the Big Bang and the Physics of Galaxies

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2024/08/07

Help us continue exploring the greatest questions of the universe with a tax-deductible donation to Closer To Truth: https://shorturl.at/OnyRqAstrophysicist Or Graur offers a brief and fascinating overview of the history, physics, and astrophysical uses of galaxies. Starting with the history of the last two thousand years of galaxy studies, Graur discusses the types of galaxies we observe and the physics that drive them; the myths and physical structure of the Milky Way; how galaxies were used to

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26:33

Can We Survive Death?

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2024/07/31

Register for a free CTT membership today to get exclusive benefits.Do I disappear at death? My body? Sure, it's gone. But my awareness? Does my consciousness end forever? What could be more frightening! Is there any hope here? Featuring interviews with Charles Tart, Richard Swinburne, Robert Park, James Tabor, and Keith Ward.

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27:17

Does Philosophy Help Science?

Closer To Truth ·

2024/07/24

What constitutes good science? Are there limits to science? If so, what are the boundaries? How deep can science dig into the foundations of the world?Featuring interviews with Steven Weinberg, Paul Davies, Colin Blakemore, and Scott Aaronson. Keep Closer To Truth's content free from paywalls! Make a tax-deductible donation of any amount today.

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27:02

Is Human Consciousness Special?

Closer To Truth ·

2024/07/17

Help us continue exploring the greatest questions of the universe with a tax-deductible donation to Closer To Truth.Scientists say my consciousness is just my brain. Theologians believe my consciousness reflects the God who created it. Mystics hold my consciousness is a drop in the ocean of cosmic consciousness. Who's right? Featuring interviews with Marvin Minsky, Marilyn Schlitz, J. van Huyssteen, Colin McGinn, and Roger Walsh. Closer to Truth presents the world’s greatest thinkers exploring

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01:18:25

Ned Block on Perception, Cognition, and Consciousness

Closer To Truth ·

2024/07/10

Distinguished Philosopher Ned Block discusses perception, cognition, and consciousness as well as his latest book, The Border Between Seeing and Thinking, a model for bringing philosophy and the mind sciences into dialogue.Ned Block is an American philosopher working in philosophy of mind who has made important contributions to the understanding of consciousness and the philosophy of cognitive science. He has been professor of philosophy and psychology at New York University since 1996. Get

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