
Is Death Final?
Is there life after death? Death is the ultimate defeat. No matter our successes, we are all doomed to suffer the final failure. But some claim that death is not final. Can the defeat be defeated? In ...
15 Feb 202326min

Donald Hoffman on Reality, Consciousness, and Conscious Agents
Donald Hoffman discusses the nature of reality, what is real, his theory of consciousness, and how this theory affects everything from artificial intelligence to alien life and the Fermi Paradox. Dona...
8 Feb 202355min

What are Scientific Breakthroughs in Biology?
What is the world fundamentally, deeply made of? What is life? We are always searching for Scientific Breakthroughs: those leaps in knowledge and jumps in understanding that change how we see the worl...
1 Feb 202326min

Sabine Hossenfelder on Physics and the Big Questions
Sabine Hossenfelder talks about if the past exists, how the universe began and how it will end, information, math as reality, time, and consciousness. She also discusses her new book, Existential Phys...
25 Jan 20231h 4min

How the Subconscious Affects Us
How does the subconscious affect us? There is more to our mental lives than the current content of our awareness. Our subconscious affects what we sense, think, feel and do. How does the subconscious ...
18 Jan 202326min

Stephon Alexander on the Fear of a Black Universe
Stephon Alexander, cosmologist and professor of theoretical physics at Brown University, discusses his most recent book, Fear of a Black Universe: An Outsider's Guide to the Future of Physics, an impo...
11 Jan 20231h 8min

What is Philosophy of Biology?
What is philosophy of biology? Biology has big questions: What is life, language, race, gender, morality, wisdom, religion, extraterrestrial intelligence? A new field of inquiry seeks underlying struc...
4 Jan 202326min

Noam Chomsky on Closer To Truth’s Big Questions (Part 4)
Closer To Truth is proud to present this four-part miniseries with distinguished theoretical linguist, analytic philosopher, and cognitive scientist Noam Chomsky. In our final part, Chomsky offers his...
21 Dec 20221h 8min



















