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24 seasons and counting exploring fundamental questions in Cosmos, Life, Consciousness, and Meaning with the world's top thinkers and scientists.
"Languages die and mathematical ideas do not."
-G. H. Hardy
-G. H. Hardy
November 18, 2025 at 8:30 PM
"Languages die and mathematical ideas do not."
-G. H. Hardy
-G. H. Hardy
Could AI be truly conscious?
November 17, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Could AI be truly conscious?
We ask Daniel Whiteson:Is physics invented or discovered?
November 13, 2025 at 3:35 PM
We ask Daniel Whiteson:Is physics invented or discovered?
That's a wrap! Coming soon: A new Chat with @ox.ac.uk Quantum Information Professor Vlatko Vedral about his book "Portals to a New Reality: Five Experiments to Unlock the Future of Physics" and how quantum physics can help us understand ultimate reality.
October 30, 2025 at 3:42 PM
That's a wrap! Coming soon: A new Chat with @ox.ac.uk Quantum Information Professor Vlatko Vedral about his book "Portals to a New Reality: Five Experiments to Unlock the Future of Physics" and how quantum physics can help us understand ultimate reality.
Can Near Death Experiences be reduced to brain activity?
October 29, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Can Near Death Experiences be reduced to brain activity?
Can we study parapsychology rigorously? We ask psychologist Dean Radin about he gets physics and mediums in the lab to test their alleged powers.
October 27, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Can we study parapsychology rigorously? We ask psychologist Dean Radin about he gets physics and mediums in the lab to test their alleged powers.
Building on last year's paper "The Landscape of Consciousness," Robert Lawrence Kuhn dives deeper into theories of consciousness and their implications.
There are hundreds of coherent theories attempting to explain the origins of experience. Robert Lawrence Kuhn, the creator and host of @closertotruth.bsky.social, explores what they reveal about free will, artificial intelligence and life after death.
What 350 different theories of consciousness reveal about reality
There are hundreds of coherent theories attempting to explain the origins of experience. Robert Lawrence Kuhn explores what they reveal about free will, artificial intelligence and life after death
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October 23, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Building on last year's paper "The Landscape of Consciousness," Robert Lawrence Kuhn dives deeper into theories of consciousness and their implications.
Watch Closer to Truth's Robert Lawrence Kuhn alongside philosophers Massimo Pigliucci and John Dupré, and neuroscientist Maria Balaet explore the biology of conflict for @iai.tv
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The biology of conflict
Conflicts between nations, religions, races, ethnicities, and political camps abound. Social media amplifies and inflames emotions. Can human biology offer a reason for, and a way out of, our modern p...
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October 17, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Watch Closer to Truth's Robert Lawrence Kuhn alongside philosophers Massimo Pigliucci and John Dupré, and neuroscientist Maria Balaet explore the biology of conflict for @iai.tv
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Biblical scholar James Tabor on the untold story of the Virgin Mary.
#religion #christianity #judaism
#religion #christianity #judaism
October 15, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Biblical scholar James Tabor on the untold story of the Virgin Mary.
#religion #christianity #judaism
#religion #christianity #judaism
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Are observers central to physics or merely bystanders to phenomena existing independently of consciousness?
Explore the role of first-person observation in fundamental physics with Bernard Carr, an emeritus professor of mathematics and astronomy, in this interview from @closertotruth.bsky.social
Explore the role of first-person observation in fundamental physics with Bernard Carr, an emeritus professor of mathematics and astronomy, in this interview from @closertotruth.bsky.social
Are observers fundamental to physics, or simply byproducts of it? | Aeon Videos
What role, if any, does the observer play in fundamental physics? A cosmologist lays out the leading theories in the field
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October 11, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Are observers central to physics or merely bystanders to phenomena existing independently of consciousness?
Explore the role of first-person observation in fundamental physics with Bernard Carr, an emeritus professor of mathematics and astronomy, in this interview from @closertotruth.bsky.social
Explore the role of first-person observation in fundamental physics with Bernard Carr, an emeritus professor of mathematics and astronomy, in this interview from @closertotruth.bsky.social
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Stephen Wolfram on The Concept of the Ruliad | From @closertotruth.bsky.social Chats
One of several ideas I think of as a candidate to describe the relations of the qualitative relata I suspect to be the nonspatiotemporal possibilities, from which spacetime emerges.
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One of several ideas I think of as a candidate to describe the relations of the qualitative relata I suspect to be the nonspatiotemporal possibilities, from which spacetime emerges.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6es7...
Stephen Wolfram on The Concept of the Ruliad | Closer To Truth Chats
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October 1, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Stephen Wolfram on The Concept of the Ruliad | From @closertotruth.bsky.social Chats
One of several ideas I think of as a candidate to describe the relations of the qualitative relata I suspect to be the nonspatiotemporal possibilities, from which spacetime emerges.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6es7...
One of several ideas I think of as a candidate to describe the relations of the qualitative relata I suspect to be the nonspatiotemporal possibilities, from which spacetime emerges.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6es7...
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Galen Strawson - Can AI Become Conscious? | From @closertotruth.bsky.social
#philosophy #consciousness #AI
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#philosophy #consciousness #AI
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Galen Strawson - Can AI Become Conscious?
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September 25, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Galen Strawson - Can AI Become Conscious? | From @closertotruth.bsky.social
#philosophy #consciousness #AI
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#philosophy #consciousness #AI
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I hope one day more people will understand that AI’s early breakthroughs were deeply connected to neuroscience. It was a pleasure to discuss the history of AI and more on @closertotruth.bsky.social with Robert Lawrence Kuhn.
September 27, 2025 at 2:40 AM
I hope one day more people will understand that AI’s early breakthroughs were deeply connected to neuroscience. It was a pleasure to discuss the history of AI and more on @closertotruth.bsky.social with Robert Lawrence Kuhn.
Our chat with AI researcher and CTO of Technology & Society at Google @blaiseaguera.bsky.social is now live!
We ask Blaise about his new book on intelligence in our new AI-filled world, and we ask: Is prediction fundamental to intelligence, our brains, and even life itself?
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We ask Blaise about his new book on intelligence in our new AI-filled world, and we ask: Is prediction fundamental to intelligence, our brains, and even life itself?
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Blaise Agüera y Arcas: What is Intelligence? | Closer To Truth Chats
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September 25, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Our chat with AI researcher and CTO of Technology & Society at Google @blaiseaguera.bsky.social is now live!
We ask Blaise about his new book on intelligence in our new AI-filled world, and we ask: Is prediction fundamental to intelligence, our brains, and even life itself?
youtu.be/qqhEEovtKgw
We ask Blaise about his new book on intelligence in our new AI-filled world, and we ask: Is prediction fundamental to intelligence, our brains, and even life itself?
youtu.be/qqhEEovtKgw
Scientist and Closer to Truth contributor Dr. Susan Schneider on the AI risks that no one is talking about and more
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September 23, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Scientist and Closer to Truth contributor Dr. Susan Schneider on the AI risks that no one is talking about and more
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Àlex Gómez-Marín on why we must explore scientific alternatives to materialism without gatekeeping or dismissiveness.
The philosophy of materialism has long dominated physics and neuroscience. | https://bit.ly/4ngZ7Bq
Àlex Gómez-Marín argues that dismissing alternatives is the most dangerous form of pseudoscience. Presented in association with @closertotruth.bsky.social a partner of #HTLGI25 this weekend.
Àlex Gómez-Marín argues that dismissing alternatives is the most dangerous form of pseudoscience. Presented in association with @closertotruth.bsky.social a partner of #HTLGI25 this weekend.
Materialism is holding science back | Àlex Gómez-Marín
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September 17, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Àlex Gómez-Marín on why we must explore scientific alternatives to materialism without gatekeeping or dismissiveness.
Your weekly dose of Sir Roger Penrose. This week we ask Roger all about quantum mechanics.
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Roger Penrose on Physics & Quantum Mechanics | Closer To Truth Chats
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September 16, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Your weekly dose of Sir Roger Penrose. This week we ask Roger all about quantum mechanics.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d887...
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We ask philosopher of science Silvia Jonas: Is mathematics invented or discovered?
September 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
We ask philosopher of science Silvia Jonas: Is mathematics invented or discovered?
From our HowTheLightGetsIn London series with @iai.tv: Could gravitation waves solve the issues with Big Bang Theory?
Physicists Bertacca and Jimenez propose that gravitational waves were key to the early universe and ultimately gave rise to galaxies, stars, and planets.
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Physicists Bertacca and Jimenez propose that gravitational waves were key to the early universe and ultimately gave rise to galaxies, stars, and planets.
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September 12, 2025 at 2:32 PM
From our HowTheLightGetsIn London series with @iai.tv: Could gravitation waves solve the issues with Big Bang Theory?
Physicists Bertacca and Jimenez propose that gravitational waves were key to the early universe and ultimately gave rise to galaxies, stars, and planets.
iai.tv/articles/new...
Physicists Bertacca and Jimenez propose that gravitational waves were key to the early universe and ultimately gave rise to galaxies, stars, and planets.
iai.tv/articles/new...
Our partnership with the Institute of Art and Ideas
for the How The Light Gets In Festival London is now live.
Read how only silence can bridge the gap between the self and world.
for the How The Light Gets In Festival London is now live.
Read how only silence can bridge the gap between the self and world.
We think we communicate and understand most deeply using language. But how can we say what words cannot express? Silence. | https://bit.ly/4pesndP
Drawing on Wittgenstein and Heidegger, Steven Bindeman argues that language separates us from the world, incapable of describing it.
#philsky #langsky
Drawing on Wittgenstein and Heidegger, Steven Bindeman argues that language separates us from the world, incapable of describing it.
#philsky #langsky
Wittgenstein, Heidegger, and the language of silence | Steven Bindeman
We think we communicate and understand most deeply using language. But how can we say what words cannot express? Silence. Drawing on Wittgenstein and Heidegger, philosopher Steven Bindeman argues that...
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September 11, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Our partnership with the Institute of Art and Ideas
for the How The Light Gets In Festival London is now live.
Read how only silence can bridge the gap between the self and world.
for the How The Light Gets In Festival London is now live.
Read how only silence can bridge the gap between the self and world.
Roger Penrose on Godel's theorem.
September 10, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Roger Penrose on Godel's theorem.
Part one of our interview with the remarkable Roger Penrose is now live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=89I7...
#ultimatereality #mathematics #physics
#ultimatereality #mathematics #physics
Roger Penrose on the Deep Nature of Reality | Closer To Truth Chats
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September 9, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Part one of our interview with the remarkable Roger Penrose is now live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=89I7...
#ultimatereality #mathematics #physics
#ultimatereality #mathematics #physics
"Believe those who seek the truth. Doubt those who find it."
-Andre Gide
-Andre Gide
September 3, 2025 at 8:27 PM
"Believe those who seek the truth. Doubt those who find it."
-Andre Gide
-Andre Gide
Last year, Closer to Truth's Robert Lawrence Kuhn mapped out 325 theories of consciousness in his seminal paper. He talked to Hans Busstra and Essentia Foundation about his work in the consciousness studies field and his personal views.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5G6...
#consciousness #neuroscience
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#consciousness #neuroscience
All 325+ Competing Consciousness Theories In One Video.
YouTube video by Essentia Foundation
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September 2, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Last year, Closer to Truth's Robert Lawrence Kuhn mapped out 325 theories of consciousness in his seminal paper. He talked to Hans Busstra and Essentia Foundation about his work in the consciousness studies field and his personal views.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5G6...
#consciousness #neuroscience
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5G6...
#consciousness #neuroscience
If God is the explanation for everything, the Universe, reality, then how do we explain God? We ask philosopher and mathematician William Dembski about the explanation and design of God. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fpgi...
William Dembski - Arguing God's Existence
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August 21, 2025 at 6:55 PM
If God is the explanation for everything, the Universe, reality, then how do we explain God? We ask philosopher and mathematician William Dembski about the explanation and design of God. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fpgi...