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Podcast Profile: Closer To Truth

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100 episodes
2023 to 2025
Median: 27 minutes
Collection: Philosophy


Description (podcaster-provided):

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.


Themes and summary (AI-generated based on podcaster-provided show and episode descriptions):

➤ Existence & consciousness exploration • Scientific breakthroughs • Philosophy & theology • Quantum theory & cosmology • AI & evolution • Deep questions on life, cosmos, and meaning

"Closer To Truth" is a podcast that delves into profound questions surrounding existence, consciousness, and the universe. By engaging with some of the world's leading thinkers, the show explores intricate themes encompassing the cosmos, life, consciousness, and meaning. The content regularly features philosophical and scientific inquiries, often challenging traditional boundaries. Episodes vary widely in topics, such as the enigma of quantum mechanics, the large-scale structure of the universe, the essence and emergence of life, cognition, and the mind-body problem. The nature of consciousness is a particular focus, with discussions addressing its potential as a fundamental reality and its relationship to physical matter.

Diverse viewpoints are presented, ranging from metaphysical speculations about the existence of God and the implications of finding intelligent extraterrestrial life, to scientific breakthroughs in fields like physics, biology, and neuroscience. This podcast frequently considers whether science has boundaries and entertains philosophical and theological perspectives on such fundamental issues. The nature of time, the role of mathematics in explaining reality, evolutionary biology, and the astonishing nature of black holes are other areas of exploration.

Interviews with notable figures from a wide array of disciplines—physicists, philosophers, theologians, biologists, and more—provide a rich tapestry of insights. Often, these discussions include reflections on personal and cultural relevance. Through intense debates and a variety of perspectives, "Closer To Truth" encourages listeners to engage deeply with humanity’s most pressing questions and seek their own answers.


Episodes:
Why Explore Consciousness and Cosmos?
2025-Feb-12
27 minutes
Nathan Lents on The Sexual Evolution
2025-Feb-05
89 minutes
The Ultimate Questions of Existence
2025-Jan-29
27 minutes
Why is the Quantum So Strange?
2025-Jan-22
27 minutes
Richard Swinburne on Evil, Atonement, and Evidence Against God
2025-Jan-15
89 minutes
Robert Lawrence Kuhn on "A Landscape of Consciousness"
2025-Jan-08
54 minutes
How is God the Creator?
2024-Dec-25
27 minutes
What's Real About Time?
2024-Dec-18
27 minutes
Arguments Against God?
2024-Dec-11
27 minutes
What is the Large-Scale Structure of the Universe?
2024-Dec-04
27 minutes
Solutions to the Mind-Body Problem?
2024-Nov-27
27 minutes
Sara Imari Walker on Physics, Emergence, and Life on Other Planets
2024-Nov-20
83 minutes
Richard Dawkins on Evolution, Atheism, and Aliens
2024-Nov-13
67 minutes
Would Intelligent Aliens Undermine God?
2024-Nov-06
27 minutes
Greg Epstein on Technology, Morality, and Religion
2024-Oct-30
65 minutes
How do Breakthroughs Happen in Physics?
2024-Oct-23
27 minutes
What's Beyond Physics?
2024-Oct-16
27 minutes
Is Race Real?
2024-Oct-09
26 minutes
What are the Limits of Science?
2024-Oct-02
26 minutes
What is the Far Future of the Universe?
2024-Sep-25
27 minutes
David Papineau on Consciousness, Physics, & the Mind-Body Problem
2024-Sep-18
74 minutes
How Do Human Brains Think and Feel?
2024-Sep-11
27 minutes
Is Consciousness Ultimate Reality?
2024-Aug-28
26 minutes
Does the Cosmos Provide Meaning?
2024-Aug-21
27 minutes
What is God?
2024-Aug-14
27 minutes
Or Graur on the Big Bang and the Physics of Galaxies
2024-Aug-07
63 minutes
Can We Survive Death?
2024-Jul-31
26 minutes
Does Philosophy Help Science?
2024-Jul-24
27 minutes
Is Human Consciousness Special?
2024-Jul-17
27 minutes
Ned Block on Perception, Cognition, and Consciousness
2024-Jul-10
78 minutes
Are Plants Sentient?
2024-Jul-03
47 minutes
Are Suffering and Ritual Vital?
2024-Jun-26
27 minutes
Why is There Anything at All?
2024-Jun-19
27 minutes
Brian Swimme on Consciousness, Cultural Evolution, and the Noosphere
2024-Jun-12
42 minutes
What is Evolutionary Developmental Biology?
2024-Jun-05
27 minutes
Eastern Traditions: What is the Human Person?
2024-May-29
26 minutes
Sean Carroll on Physics, the Multiverse, and Quantum Mechanics
2024-May-24
58 minutes
What are Scientific Breakthroughs in Biology?
2024-May-15
27 minutes
Why are Black Holes so Astonishing?
2024-May-08
26 minutes
Anna Abraham on the Neuroscience of the Creative Brain
2024-May-01
71 minutes
Robert Wright on Evolution and the Future of Humanity
2024-Apr-24
57 minutes
Eastern Traditions: What is World? What is Reality?
2024-Apr-17
27 minutes
Nick Bostrom on Superintelligence and the Future of AI
2024-Apr-10
71 minutes
Paul Thagard on AI, Animal Consciousness, and Human Intelligence
2024-Apr-03
72 minutes
Helen De Cruz on What Makes Life Worth Living
2024-Mar-27
57 minutes
Why Philosophy of Biology?
2024-Mar-20
27 minutes
Marcelo Gleiser on Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience
2024-Mar-13
73 minutes
Does Consciousness Require a Radical Explanation?
2024-Mar-06
26 minutes
What Does the “Unreasonable Effectiveness” of Mathematics Mean?
2024-Feb-28
27 minutes
Carlo Rovelli on White Holes
2024-Feb-21
77 minutes
Ilia Delio on Evolution, Quantum Physics, and Neuroscience in Theology
2024-Feb-14
47 minutes
Can Mathematics Explain Biology?
2024-Feb-07
26 minutes
Roger Penrose: Mathematics & What Exists
2024-Jan-24
27 minutes
Is Mathematics Invented or Discovered?
2024-Jan-16
26 minutes
What is the Deep Meaning of Probability?
2024-Jan-10
26 minutes
Martin Rees on Cosmology and Existential Risk
2024-Jan-03
43 minutes
When Brains Go Bad
2023-Dec-27
26 minutes
Jesus as God: A Philosophical Inquiry
2023-Dec-20
26 minutes
Freeman Dyson: From Physics to the Far Future
2023-Dec-13
27 minutes
How Does the Subconscious Affect Us?
2023-Dec-06
26 minutes
What Are Breakthroughs in Mathematics?
2023-Nov-29
27 minutes
Terrence Deacon on the Noosphere
2023-Nov-22
51 minutes
Philip Goff on the Purpose of the Universe
2023-Nov-08
75 minutes
Why is Mathematics True and Beautiful?
2023-Nov-01
26 minutes
Can We Survive Death?
2023-Oct-25
27 minutes
Can Art Probe Creativity?
2023-Oct-18
26 minutes
What Makes Brains Conscious?
2023-Oct-11
26 minutes
Dan Dennett on the Mysteries of the Mind
2023-Oct-04
81 minutes
Will Kinney on Cosmic Inflation and the Beginning of the Universe
2023-Sep-27
69 minutes
The Marvels of Space-Time
2023-Sep-20
27 minutes
Samuel Lebens on Jewish Philosophy
2023-Sep-13
62 minutes
What Exists?
2023-Sep-06
26 minutes
What Are Dreams About?
2023-Aug-30
26 minutes
What is Time?
2023-Aug-23
27 minutes
Do Angels and Demons Exist?
2023-Aug-16
26 minutes
Dr. Aomawa Shields on Life on Other Planets
2023-Aug-09
66 minutes
How to Decipher Deception in Evolution?
2023-Aug-02
27 minutes
Paul Davies on What’s Eating the Universe (Part 2)
2023-Jul-26
78 minutes
Paul Davies on What’s Eating the Universe (Part 1)
2023-Jul-26
30 minutes
How Do Humans Differ from Other Animals?
2023-Jul-19
26 minutes
Frank Wilczek on the Future of Science (Part 2)
2023-Jul-12
69 minutes
Frank Wilczek on the Future of Science (Part 1)
2023-Jul-12
44 minutes
Can Art Clarify The Mind-Body Problem?
2023-Jul-05
26 minutes
Sara Manning Peskin on the Deepest Mysteries of our Brains
2023-Jun-28
70 minutes
What are Scientific Breakthroughs in Physics?
2023-Jun-21
27 minutes
Did the Universe Have a Beginning?
2023-Jun-14
26 minutes
How Does Deception Affect Human Behavior?
2023-Jun-07
26 minutes
Tim Palmer on Doubt: From Quantum Physics to Climate Change
2023-May-31
85 minutes
Where Are They, All Those Aliens?
2023-May-24
26 minutes
Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam on How Thinking Emerged from Chaos
2023-May-18
77 minutes
The Multiverse: What’s Real?
2023-May-10
26 minutes
Michio Kaku on Quantum Supremacy
2023-May-03
74 minutes
Hilary Lawson on Closure
2023-Apr-26
75 minutes
Are There Extra Dimensions?
2023-Apr-19
26 minutes
Manil Suri on How to Build the Universe with Math
2023-Apr-12
61 minutes
Why is Consciousness Baffling?
2023-Apr-05
26 minutes
What is Philosophy of the Breakthrough Process?
2023-Mar-29
26 minutes
Nicholas Humphrey on Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness
2023-Mar-22
75 minutes
Episode Image Is Time Travel Possible?
2023-Mar-15
26 minutes
Jill Tarter on Alien Intelligences, Extraterrestrial Technology, and SETI
2023-Mar-08
37 minutes