Closer To Truth
Closer To TruthCloser To Truth presents the world’s greatest thinkers exploring humanity’s deepest questions in Cosmos, Life, Mind, and Meaning.
Chris French on the Science of Weird Shit
Jun 4 • 1h 24m
What Would Alien Life & Intelligences Mean?
May 28 • 27m
Joseph Corabi: Could Superintelligent AI Defeat Itself?
May 16 • 1h 19m
Can Dualism Explain Consciousness?
Apr 30 • 27m
Terry Sejnowski on ChatGPT and the Future of AI
Apr 22 • 1h 21m
Aspects of Consciousness
Apr 9 • 37m
What is Extended Mind?
Apr 2 • 27m
Does a Fine-Tuned Universe Lead to God?
Mar 26 • 27m
Annaka Harria on Consciousness and the Cosmos
Mar 19 • 1h 33m
Do Human Brains Have Free Will?
Mar 12 • 27m
Implications of Cosmology?
Feb 26 • 27m
Why Explore Consciousness and Cosmos?
Feb 12 • 27m
Nathan Lents on The Sexual Evolution
Feb 5 • 1h 29m
The Ultimate Questions of Existence
Jan 29 • 27m
Why is the Quantum So Strange?
Jan 22 • 27m
How is God the Creator?
Dec 25, 2024 • 27m
What's Real About Time?
Dec 18, 2024 • 27m
Arguments Against God?
Dec 11, 2024 • 27m
What is the Large-Scale Structure of the Universe?
Dec 4, 2024 • 27m
Solutions to the Mind-Body Problem?
Nov 27, 2024 • 27m
Sara Imari Walker on Physics, Emergence, and Life on Other Planets
Nov 20, 2024 • 1h 23m
Richard Dawkins on Evolution, Atheism, and Aliens
Nov 13, 2024 • 1h 7m
Would Intelligent Aliens Undermine God?
Nov 6, 2024 • 27m
Greg Epstein on Technology, Morality, and Religion
Oct 30, 2024 • 1h 5m
How do Breakthroughs Happen in Physics?
Oct 23, 2024 • 27m
What's Beyond Physics?
Oct 16, 2024 • 27m
Is Race Real?
Oct 9, 2024 • 26m
What are the Limits of Science?
Oct 2, 2024 • 26m
What is the Far Future of the Universe?
Sep 25, 2024 • 27m
David Papineau on Consciousness, Physics, & the Mind-Body Problem
Sep 18, 2024 • 1h 14m
How Do Human Brains Think and Feel?
Sep 11, 2024 • 27m
David Papineau on Consciousness, Physics, and the Mind-Body Problem
Sep 4, 2024 • 1h 14m
Is Consciousness Ultimate Reality?
Aug 28, 2024 • 26m
Does the Cosmos Provide Meaning?
Aug 21, 2024 • 27m
What is God?
Aug 14, 2024 • 27m
Or Graur on the Big Bang and the Physics of Galaxies
Aug 7, 2024 • 1h 3m
Can We Survive Death?
Jul 31, 2024 • 26m
Does Philosophy Help Science?
Jul 24, 2024 • 27m
Is Human Consciousness Special?
Jul 17, 2024 • 27m
Ned Block on Perception, Cognition, and Consciousness
Jul 10, 2024 • 1h 18m
Are Plants Sentient?
Jul 3, 2024 • 47m
Are Suffering and Ritual Vital?
Jun 26, 2024 • 27m
Why is There Anything at All?
Jun 19, 2024 • 27m
Brian Swimme on Consciousness, Cultural Evolution, and the Noosphere
Jun 12, 2024 • 42m
What is Evolutionary Developmental Biology?
Jun 5, 2024 • 27m
Eastern Traditions: What is the Human Person?
May 29, 2024 • 26m
Sean Carroll on Physics, the Multiverse, and Quantum Mechanics
May 24, 2024 • 58m
What are Scientific Breakthroughs in Biology?
May 15, 2024 • 27m
Why are Black Holes so Astonishing?
May 8, 2024 • 26m
Anna Abraham on the Neuroscience of the Creative Brain
May 1, 2024 • 1h 11m
Robert Wright on Evolution and the Future of Humanity
Apr 24, 2024 • 57m
Eastern Traditions: What is World? What is Reality?
Apr 17, 2024 • 27m
Nick Bostrom on Superintelligence and the Future of AI
Apr 10, 2024 • 1h 11m
Paul Thagard on AI, Animal Consciousness, and Human Intelligence
Apr 3, 2024 • 1h 12m
Helen De Cruz on What Makes Life Worth Living
Mar 27, 2024 • 57m
Why Philosophy of Biology?
Mar 20, 2024 • 27m
Marcelo Gleiser on Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience
Mar 13, 2024 • 1h 13m
Does Consciousness Require a Radical Explanation?
Mar 6, 2024 • 26m
What Does the “Unreasonable Effectiveness” of Mathematics Mean?
Feb 28, 2024 • 27m
Carlo Rovelli on White Holes
Feb 21, 2024 • 1h 17m
Ilia Delio on Evolution, Quantum Physics, and Neuroscience in Theology
Feb 14, 2024 • 47m
Can Mathematics Explain Biology?
Feb 7, 2024 • 26m
Roger Penrose: Mathematics & What Exists
Jan 24, 2024 • 27m
Is Mathematics Invented or Discovered?
Jan 16, 2024 • 26m
What is the Deep Meaning of Probability?
Jan 10, 2024 • 26m
Martin Rees on Cosmology and Existential Risk
Jan 3, 2024 • 43m
When Brains Go Bad
Dec 27, 2023 • 26m
Jesus as God: A Philosophical Inquiry
Dec 20, 2023 • 26m
Freeman Dyson: From Physics to the Far Future
Dec 13, 2023 • 27m
How Does the Subconscious Affect Us?
Dec 6, 2023 • 26m
What Are Breakthroughs in Mathematics?
Nov 29, 2023 • 27m
Terrence Deacon on the Noosphere
Nov 22, 2023 • 51m
Philip Goff on the Purpose of the Universe
Nov 8, 2023 • 1h 15m
Why is Mathematics True and Beautiful?
Nov 1, 2023 • 26m
Can We Survive Death?
Oct 25, 2023 • 27m
Can Art Probe Creativity?
Oct 18, 2023 • 26m
What Makes Brains Conscious?
Oct 11, 2023 • 26m
Dan Dennett on the Mysteries of the Mind
Oct 4, 2023 • 1h 21m
Will Kinney on Cosmic Inflation and the Beginning of the Universe
Sep 27, 2023 • 1h 9m
The Marvels of Space-Time
Sep 20, 2023 • 27m
Samuel Lebens on Jewish Philosophy
Sep 13, 2023 • 1h 2m
What Exists?
Sep 6, 2023 • 26m
What Are Dreams About?
Aug 30, 2023 • 26m
What is Time?
Aug 23, 2023 • 27m
Do Angels and Demons Exist?
Aug 16, 2023 • 26m
Dr. Aomawa Shields on Life on Other Planets
Aug 9, 2023 • 1h 6m
How to Decipher Deception in Evolution?
Aug 2, 2023 • 27m
Paul Davies on What’s Eating the Universe (Part 2)
Jul 26, 2023 • 1h 18m
Paul Davies on What’s Eating the Universe (Part 1)
Jul 26, 2023 • 30m
How Do Humans Differ from Other Animals?
Jul 19, 2023 • 26m
Frank Wilczek on the Future of Science (Part 2)
Jul 12, 2023 • 1h 9m
Frank Wilczek on the Future of Science (Part 1)
Jul 12, 2023 • 44m
Can Art Clarify The Mind-Body Problem?
Jul 5, 2023 • 26m
Sara Manning Peskin on the Deepest Mysteries of our Brains
Jun 28, 2023 • 1h 10m
What are Scientific Breakthroughs in Physics?
Jun 21, 2023 • 27m
Did the Universe Have a Beginning?
Jun 14, 2023 • 26m
How Does Deception Affect Human Behavior?
Jun 7, 2023 • 26m
Tim Palmer on Doubt: From Quantum Physics to Climate Change
May 31, 2023 • 1h 25m
Where Are They, All Those Aliens?
May 24, 2023 • 26m
Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam on How Thinking Emerged from Chaos
May 18, 2023 • 1h 17m
The Multiverse: What’s Real?
May 10, 2023 • 26m
Michio Kaku on Quantum Supremacy
May 3, 2023 • 1h 14m
Hilary Lawson on Closure
Apr 26, 2023 • 1h 15m
Are There Extra Dimensions?
Apr 19, 2023 • 26m
Manil Suri on How to Build the Universe with Math
Apr 12, 2023 • 1h 1m
Why is Consciousness Baffling?
Apr 5, 2023 • 26m
What is Philosophy of the Breakthrough Process?
Mar 29, 2023 • 26m
Nicholas Humphrey on Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness
Mar 22, 2023 • 1h 15m
Is Time Travel Possible?
Mar 15, 2023 • 26m
What are Scientific Breakthroughs in Physics?
Mar 1, 2023 • 26m
Sean Carroll on the Biggest Ideas in the Universe
Feb 22, 2023 • 1h 12m
Is Death Final?
Feb 15, 2023 • 26m
Donald Hoffman on Reality, Consciousness, and Conscious Agents
Feb 8, 2023 • 55m
What are Scientific Breakthroughs in Biology?
Feb 1, 2023 • 26m
Sabine Hossenfelder on Physics and the Big Questions
Jan 25, 2023 • 1h 4m
How the Subconscious Affects Us
Jan 18, 2023 • 26m
Stephon Alexander on the Fear of a Black Universe
Jan 11, 2023 • 1h 8m
What is Philosophy of Biology?
Jan 4, 2023 • 26m
Noam Chomsky on Closer To Truth’s Big Questions (Part 4)
Dec 21, 2022 • 1h 8m
Noam Chomsky on Theories of Linguistics (Part 2)
Dec 14, 2022 • 42m
Noam Chomsky on Intellectual History and Reflections (Part 1)
Dec 14, 2022 • 27m
Sir Roger Penrose on Consciousness and New Physics
Dec 7, 2022 • 35m
Sir Roger Penrose on Spacetime, Quantum Mechanics, and General Relativity
Dec 7, 2022 • 1h 54m
Sir Roger Penrose on Mathematics and World Reflections
Dec 7, 2022 • 32m
What's Beyond Physics?
May 12, 2021 • 26m
Can the Brain Explain Art?
May 5, 2021 • 26m
What is Philosophy of Art?
Apr 28, 2021 • 26m
Can Metaphysics Discover Surprises?
Apr 21, 2021 • 26m
The Mystery of Existence
Apr 14, 2021 • 26m
Can Art Clarify the Mind-Body Problem?
Apr 7, 2021 • 26m
Does Information Create the Cosmos?
Mar 31, 2021 • 26m
Big Questions in Free Will (Part 1)
Mar 24, 2021 • 26m
What Exists? (Part 2)
Mar 17, 2021 • 26m
Can the Cosmos Have a Reason?
Mar 10, 2021 • 26m
Can Brain Explain Mind?
Mar 3, 2021 • 26m
Where are All Those Aliens?
Feb 24, 2021 • 26m
Big Questions in Free Will (Part 2)
Dec 30, 2020 • 26m
What is the Mind-Body Problem?
Dec 11, 2020 • 26m
Why a Fine-Tuned Universe?
Dec 9, 2020 • 26m
Why is There Something Rather Than Nothing?
Dec 2, 2020 • 26m
How Could God Interact with the World?
Nov 25, 2020 • 26m
Toward a Science of Consciousness
Nov 18, 2020 • 26m
Did Our Universe Have a Beginning?
Nov 11, 2020 • 26m
Arguing God from Design
Nov 4, 2020 • 26m
What are Dreams About?
Oct 28, 2020 • 26m
Did God Create Time?
Oct 21, 2020 • 26m
Could Our Universe Be a Fake?
Oct 14, 2020 • 26m
Do Persons Have Souls?
Oct 7, 2020 • 26m
Why is There Anything at All? (Part 2)
Sep 30, 2020 • 26s
Arguing God's Existence
Sep 23, 2020 • 26s
Is Consciousness an Illusion?
Sep 16, 2020 • 26s
Is the Universe Fine-Tuned for Life and Mind?
Sep 9, 2020 • 26s
Can Design Point to God?
Sep 3, 2020 • 26s
Are Brain and Mind the Same Thing?
Aug 26, 2020 • 26s
How Does Beauty Color the Cosmos?
Aug 19, 2020 • 26s
Does God Make Sense?
Aug 12, 2020 • 26s
Why is Consciousness so Mysterious?
Aug 5, 2020 • 26s
Is This the End Time?
Jul 26, 2020 • 26s
How do Brains Work?
Jul 22, 2020 • 26s
Can Science Deal With God?
Jul 17, 2020 • 26s
Arguing God From Morality
Jul 1, 2020 • 26s
Confronting Consciousness
Jun 24, 2020 • 26s
What Things Really Exist?
Jun 17, 2020 • 26s
How Can God Not be Free?
Jun 10, 2020 • 26s
How Are Brains Structured?
Jun 3, 2020 • 26s
How Vast is the Cosmos?
May 27, 2020 • 26s
Arguing God From First Cause
May 20, 2020 • 26s
What is Truth?
May 13, 2020 • 26s
Why Anything at All? (Part 2)
Mar 9, 2020 • 26s
Can the Brain Explain Art?
Mar 9, 2020 • 26s
What is Philosophy of Art?
Mar 9, 2020 • 26s
Can Art Clarify the Mind-Body Problem?
Mar 9, 2020 • 26s
What Exists II?
Jul 30, 2019 • 26s
Salvation - A Philosophical Inquiry
Jul 24, 2019 • 26s
Atonement - A Philosophical Inquiry
Jul 24, 2019 • 26s
Jesus as God - A Philosophical Inquiry
Jul 24, 2019 • 26s
What's Strong Emergence?
Jul 24, 2019 • 26s
Is the Person All Material?
Jun 17, 2019 • 26s
Why is Consciousness Baffling?
May 21, 2019 • 26s
Is the Anthropic Principle Significant?
Jan 17, 2019 • 26s
What is Fine-Tuning in Cosmology?
Jan 17, 2019 • 26s
What is Philosophy of Cosmology?
Jan 17, 2019 • 26s
What is Fine-Tuning in Physics?
Jan 17, 2019 • 26s
What Would Multiple Universes Mean?
Dec 20, 2018 • 26s
The Multiverse: What's Real?
Dec 20, 2018 • 26s
How Many Universes Exist?
Dec 20, 2018 • 26s
What's the New Atheism?
Aug 23, 2018 • 26s
Can Religion be Explained without God?
Aug 23, 2018 • 26s
Would Multiple Universes Undermine God?
Aug 23, 2018 • 26s
What is Analytic Theology?
Jul 26, 2018 • 26s
Epistemology: How Do I Know?
Jul 26, 2018 • 26s
Challenges of Analytic Theology
Jul 26, 2018 • 26s
Do Science & Religion Conflict?
Jul 10, 2018 • 26s
Cosmology and Creation?
Jul 10, 2018 • 26s
Why Consonance in Science and Religion?
Jul 10, 2018 • 26s
What Could ESP Mean?
Mar 22, 2018 • 26s
Does ESP Reveal Spirit Existence?
Mar 22, 2018 • 26s
How Could ESP Work?
Mar 22, 2018 • 26s
What is Information?
Feb 14, 2018 • 26s
What is Time?
Feb 14, 2018 • 26s
Can the Cosmos Have a Reason?
Feb 14, 2018 • 26s
Is God Necessary?
Jan 2, 2018 • 26s
Death Disrupted?
Jan 2, 2018 • 26s
Wondering about God
Jan 2, 2018 • 26s
Can Metaphysics Discern God?
Nov 30, 2017 • 26s
Speculating about God?
Nov 30, 2017 • 26s
How Could God Make Miracles?
Nov 30, 2017 • 26s
Does the Cosmos Have a Reason?
Nov 7, 2017 • 26s
Can the Mind Heal the Body?
Oct 12, 2017 • 26s
What is Consciousness?
Oct 12, 2017 • 26s
How Does Personal Identity Persist Through Time?
Oct 12, 2017 • 26s
Time at Sea
Sep 18, 2017 • 26s
Does Cosmic Fine-Tuning Demand Explanation?
Sep 18, 2017 • 26s
Why a Body in a Resurrection?
Jul 28, 2017 • 26s
Does Hell Reveal God?
Jul 28, 2017 • 26s
What's in a Resurrection?
Jul 28, 2017 • 26s
Science and the Future of Humanity
Jun 22, 2017 • 26s
Observing Quanta, Observing Nature?
Jun 22, 2017 • 26s
Is the Universe Theologically Ambiguous?
Jun 22, 2017 • 26s
How Did the Universe Begin?
May 3, 2017 • 26s
What Exists?
May 3, 2017 • 26s
Why Philosophy of Physics & Cosmology?
May 2, 2017 • 26s
What Maintains Personal Identity?
Apr 19, 2016 • 26s
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