TrueSciPhi

Podcast Profile: Closer To Truth

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100 episodes
2024 to 2026
Median: 27 minutes
Collection: Philosophy

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This podcast centers on conversations and panel-style explorations of “ultimate questions” at the intersection of physics, philosophy, cognitive science, religion, and emerging technology. Across the episodes, the show regularly asks what reality is at its deepest level, drawing on modern cosmology and quantum theory to probe topics such as the Big Bang, black holes, quantum measurement, and whether observation plays a fundamental role in what exists. Mathematics is treated not merely as a tool but as a philosophical problem in its own right, with recurring attention to whether mathematical truths are discovered or invented and what their apparent timelessness implies about the structure of reality.

A major throughline is consciousness: how it might fit (or fail to fit) into a purely physical worldview, what different scientific and philosophical approaches can explain, and how concepts like free will, the self, and “extended” or embodied mind complicate standard boundaries between brain, body, and world. Alongside mainstream perspectives, the podcast also addresses anomalous and controversial claims—such as near-death experiences and parapsychological phenomena—often focusing on what these would imply for theories of mind if they were real, as well as why people believe them and how skeptical inquiry approaches such reports.

Another set of episodes compares global religious and philosophical traditions, emphasizing differences in concepts of God or ultimate reality, personhood and self, inner-life practices (prayer, meditation, embodied ritual), and views of death, afterlife, and reincarnation. Art and aesthetics appear as vehicles for examining transcendence and the ways images, music, and narrative can shape belief and experience.

The podcast also extends these core concerns into the future by examining artificial intelligence, large language models, machine ethics, and transhumanism. These discussions connect technical and social questions—prediction, computation, identity, deepfakes, national security—to classic philosophical issues about consciousness, moral status, and whether “mind” could exist in non-biological systems. Throughout, the format foregrounds debate, contrasting frameworks, and the limits of current explanation.