Can Brain Alone Explain Consciousness?
Support the show with a tax-deductible donation of any amount so we can continue exploring the world's biggest questions without the need for paywalls. Can physical facts about the brain account for...
25 Mar 27min
Asking Ultimate Questions
Contribute what you can to help Closer To Truth continue exploring the world's deepest questions without the need for paywalls. We like pushing boundaries, trying to discern existence, searching the...
18 Mar 27min
Why a Landscape of Consciousness?
Contribute what you can to help Closer To Truth continue exploring the world's deepest questions without the need for paywalls. Explore diverse theories of consciousness, like materialism, dualism, pa...
11 Mar 26min
What Life Might Come After Death?
Make a donation to Closer To Truth to help us continue exploring the world's deepest questions without the need for paywall What kinds of afterlives do the world’s religions offer? Soul/spirit in he...
8 Mar 26min
Could Theories of Consciousness Affect Life After Death?
Life after death is a haunting and deeply personal longing. Can we explore life after death in relation to theories of consciousness, ranging from strict materialism to imaginative philosophy to ancie...
25 Feb 27min
Raymond Tallis on the Mystery of Human Beings
Explicitness is one of the fundamental mysteries in which our lives are wrapped. Our capacity, as conscious subjects, to make things explicit, so that what-is presents itself as “that-it-is” or “that-...
18 Feb 25min
What do Theories of Consciousness Mean?
What causes consciousness, our inner felt experience, like the smell of garlic cooking in olive oil? Explore diverse theories from quantum consciousness to consciousness as fundamental reality. We see...
11 Feb 1h 9min
Can Art Harmonize Diverse Religions?
Almost all religions use art in their sacred spaces and many use art forms in their worship rituals. Certainly, there is powerful social cohesion at work. Can cross-religion communications in art, lar...
4 Feb 27min
