Themes and summary (AI-generated based on podcaster-provided show and episode descriptions):
➤ Cosmos and universe exploration • Deep philosophical questions • Consciousness and mind • Science and religion debates • Artificial intelligence and technology • Human nature and evolution • Interfaith perspectives
"Closer To Truth" is a podcast that brings together some of the world's foremost thinkers to explore profound and enduring questions about existence, consciousness, and the cosmos. The show delves into a wide range of topics, traversing the mysteries of life, the nature and limits of human understanding, and the ultimate questions of meaning. Central themes include the exploration of consciousness, the nature of reality, and the intersection of science and religion, especially concerning cosmology, life after death, and artificial intelligence.
Discussion on consciousness often considers its potential origins, manifestations, and implications. The podcast examines whether consciousness is a fundamental aspect of the universe or an artifact of biological processes. The relationship between consciousness and large-scale philosophical questions, such as free will and the mind-body problem, is a frequent subject of inquiry.
Another recurrent theme is the relationship between science and spirituality. The podcast explores how different religious and philosophical traditions interpret consciousness, creation, and the nature of existence. It questions the role and significance of God or spiritual entities in a universe described by science. Topics like dualism, cosmological fine-tuning, and the potential for life and intelligence beyond Earth further illustrate this dialogue.
Moreover, the podcast addresses advancements in technology and their implications on fundamental philosophical questions. Aspects of artificial intelligence and its potential to influence human understanding and societal structure are critically examined, considering themes like transhumanism and AI-consciousness.
Through interviews with experts in diverse fields, "Closer To Truth" challenges listeners to confront and question deeply ingrained assumptions about the universe and human experience, inviting them to seek their own answers to humanity's deepest questions.
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Episodes:
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Daniel Whiteson on Aliens, Physics, and the Nature of Reaity
2025-Nov-05
81 minutes
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Death, Life After Death, & Reincarnation
2025-Oct-29
50 minutes
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Is Consciousness Ultimate?
2025-Oct-22
27 minutes
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Roger Penrose on Deep Reality and Quantum Mechanics
2025-Oct-15
47 minutes
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Is Mathematics Eternal?
2025-Oct-08
44 minutes
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What is Global Philosophy of Religion?
2025-Oct-01
27 minutes
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Stephen Wolfram on Physics and Computation
2025-Sep-24
42 minutes
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What Does Transhumanism Foreshadow?
2025-Sep-17
27 minutes
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Can We Explore Transcendence Via Art and Mind?
2025-Sep-10
27 minutes
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Can Philosophy Discern Sex and Gender?
2025-Sep-03
27 minutes
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Can Near-Death Experiences Affect Consciousness Theories?
2025-Aug-27
28 minutes
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Evolution vs. Religion: Anything New?
2025-Aug-20
27 minutes
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Clément Vidal on Life's Biggest Questions
2025-Aug-13
89 minutes
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How did Cognition and Emotion Evolve?
2025-Aug-06
27 minutes
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Mark Bailey on AI: Consciousness, Dangers, and Morality
2025-Jul-30
42 minutes
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What is Human Nature?
2025-Jul-23
27 minutes
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Julia Mossbridge on AI: Is There a Soul in the Machine?
2025-Jul-16
47 minutes
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How do Reductionism and Emergence Dance?
2025-Jul-09
27 minutes
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James Hughes on AI Consciousness: Buddhism & Posthuman Futures
2025-Jul-02
46 minutes
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What are Units or Levels of Selection?
2025-Jun-25
27 minutes
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Zoltan Istvan on AI: Transhumanism and Deepfakes
2025-Jun-18
52 minutes
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How Can Philosophy Probe Evolutionary Biology?
2025-Jun-11
27 minutes
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Chris French on the Science of Weird Shit
2025-Jun-04
84 minutes
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What Would Alien Life & Intelligences Mean?
2025-May-28
27 minutes
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Jonathan Schooler on the Psychology of Artificial Intelligence
2025-May-21
23 minutes
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Joseph Corabi: Could Superintelligent AI Defeat Itself?
2025-May-16
79 minutes
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Eastern Traditions: What are Ultimate Existence and Essence?
2025-May-14
27 minutes
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Zorana Pringle on the Science of Creativity & Decision-Making
2025-May-07
65 minutes
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Can Dualism Explain Consciousness?
2025-Apr-30
27 minutes
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Robin Hanson on the Age of AI and Large Language Models
2025-Apr-25
46 minutes
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Terry Sejnowski on ChatGPT and the Future of AI
2025-Apr-22
81 minutes
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What is the Philosophy of Scientific Breakthroughs?
2025-Apr-15
27 minutes
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Aspects of Consciousness
2025-Apr-09
37 minutes
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What is Extended Mind?
2025-Apr-02
27 minutes
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Does a Fine-Tuned Universe Lead to God?
2025-Mar-26
27 minutes
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Annaka Harria on Consciousness and the Cosmos
2025-Mar-19
93 minutes
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Do Human Brains Have Free Will?
2025-Mar-12
27 minutes
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Janna Levin on Cosmology: Black Holes, the Big Bang, and More
2025-Mar-05
73 minutes
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Implications of Cosmology?
2025-Feb-26
27 minutes
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Philip Goff and Helen De Cruz on Finding (and Losing) Their Religion
2025-Feb-19
74 minutes
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Why Explore Consciousness and Cosmos?
2025-Feb-12
27 minutes
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Nathan Lents on The Sexual Evolution
2025-Feb-05
89 minutes
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The Ultimate Questions of Existence
2025-Jan-29
27 minutes
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Why is the Quantum So Strange?
2025-Jan-22
27 minutes
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Richard Swinburne on Evil, Atonement, and Evidence Against God
2025-Jan-15
89 minutes
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Robert Lawrence Kuhn on "A Landscape of Consciousness"
2025-Jan-08
54 minutes
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How is God the Creator?
2024-Dec-25
27 minutes
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What's Real About Time?
2024-Dec-18
27 minutes
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Arguments Against God?
2024-Dec-11
27 minutes
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What is the Large-Scale Structure of the Universe?
2024-Dec-04
27 minutes
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Solutions to the Mind-Body Problem?
2024-Nov-27
27 minutes
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Sara Imari Walker on Physics, Emergence, and Life on Other Planets
2024-Nov-20
83 minutes
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Richard Dawkins on Evolution, Atheism, and Aliens
2024-Nov-13
67 minutes
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Would Intelligent Aliens Undermine God?
2024-Nov-06
27 minutes
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Greg Epstein on Technology, Morality, and Religion
2024-Oct-30
65 minutes
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How do Breakthroughs Happen in Physics?
2024-Oct-23
27 minutes
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What's Beyond Physics?
2024-Oct-16
27 minutes
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Is Race Real?
2024-Oct-09
26 minutes
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What are the Limits of Science?
2024-Oct-02
26 minutes
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What is the Far Future of the Universe?
2024-Sep-25
27 minutes
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David Papineau on Consciousness, Physics, & the Mind-Body Problem
2024-Sep-18
74 minutes
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How Do Human Brains Think and Feel?
2024-Sep-11
27 minutes
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Is Consciousness Ultimate Reality?
2024-Aug-28
26 minutes
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Does the Cosmos Provide Meaning?
2024-Aug-21
27 minutes
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What is God?
2024-Aug-14
27 minutes
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Or Graur on the Big Bang and the Physics of Galaxies
2024-Aug-07
63 minutes
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Can We Survive Death?
2024-Jul-31
26 minutes
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Does Philosophy Help Science?
2024-Jul-24
27 minutes
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Is Human Consciousness Special?
2024-Jul-17
27 minutes
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Ned Block on Perception, Cognition, and Consciousness
2024-Jul-10
78 minutes
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Are Plants Sentient?
2024-Jul-03
47 minutes
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Are Suffering and Ritual Vital?
2024-Jun-26
27 minutes
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Why is There Anything at All?
2024-Jun-19
27 minutes
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Brian Swimme on Consciousness, Cultural Evolution, and the Noosphere
2024-Jun-12
42 minutes
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What is Evolutionary Developmental Biology?
2024-Jun-05
27 minutes
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Eastern Traditions: What is the Human Person?
2024-May-29
26 minutes
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Sean Carroll on Physics, the Multiverse, and Quantum Mechanics
2024-May-24
58 minutes
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What are Scientific Breakthroughs in Biology?
2024-May-15
27 minutes
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Why are Black Holes so Astonishing?
2024-May-08
26 minutes
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Anna Abraham on the Neuroscience of the Creative Brain
2024-May-01
71 minutes
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Robert Wright on Evolution and the Future of Humanity
2024-Apr-24
57 minutes
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Eastern Traditions: What is World? What is Reality?
2024-Apr-17
27 minutes
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Nick Bostrom on Superintelligence and the Future of AI
2024-Apr-10
71 minutes
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Paul Thagard on AI, Animal Consciousness, and Human Intelligence
2024-Apr-03
72 minutes
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Helen De Cruz on What Makes Life Worth Living
2024-Mar-27
57 minutes
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Why Philosophy of Biology?
2024-Mar-20
27 minutes
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Marcelo Gleiser on Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience
2024-Mar-13
73 minutes
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Does Consciousness Require a Radical Explanation?
2024-Mar-06
26 minutes
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What Does the “Unreasonable Effectiveness” of Mathematics Mean?
2024-Feb-28
27 minutes
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Carlo Rovelli on White Holes
2024-Feb-21
77 minutes
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Ilia Delio on Evolution, Quantum Physics, and Neuroscience in Theology
2024-Feb-14
47 minutes
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Can Mathematics Explain Biology?
2024-Feb-07
26 minutes
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Roger Penrose: Mathematics & What Exists
2024-Jan-24
27 minutes
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Is Mathematics Invented or Discovered?
2024-Jan-16
26 minutes
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What is the Deep Meaning of Probability?
2024-Jan-10
26 minutes
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Martin Rees on Cosmology and Existential Risk
2024-Jan-03
43 minutes
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When Brains Go Bad
2023-Dec-27
26 minutes
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Jesus as God: A Philosophical Inquiry
2023-Dec-20
26 minutes
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Freeman Dyson: From Physics to the Far Future
2023-Dec-13
27 minutes
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How Does the Subconscious Affect Us?
2023-Dec-06
26 minutes
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