Closer To Truth

By Closer To Truth

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Subscribers: 194
Reviews: 3
Episodes: 300

Max
 Apr 15, 2023
Mr. Kuhn is doing God's work on YT. 5 star for that. 1 star on the podcast, because of SUDDEN intrusions of loud adverts in mid sentence...!!

ET
 Dec 27, 2018
Lawrence Kuhn is probably the brightest interviewer in science & philosophy journalism. These podcasts are excerpts from his TV series which I don't think airs anywhere! I'd like to see him focus on long form podcasting...

David Maxwell
 Aug 30, 2018
Simply amazing.

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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.

Episode Date
Arnold Zuboff on Why You Are Every Conscious Being
May 06, 2026
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein on The Mattering Instinct
Apr 29, 2026
What Is The Far Future Of Intelligence
Apr 22, 2026
Roman Yampolskiy on How Dangerous Is Artificial Intelligence
Apr 15, 2026
Michael James on What the World Is According to Sri Ramana
Apr 08, 2026
Current Arguments for God
Apr 01, 2026
Can Brain Alone Explain Consciousness?
Mar 25, 2026
Asking Ultimate Questions
Mar 18, 2026
Why a Landscape of Consciousness?
Mar 11, 2026
What Life Might Come After Death?
Mar 08, 2026
Could Theories of Consciousness Affect Life After Death?
Feb 25, 2026
Raymond Tallis on the Mystery of Human Beings
Feb 18, 2026
What do Theories of Consciousness Mean?
Feb 11, 2026
Can Art Harmonize Diverse Religions?
Feb 04, 2026
Vlatko Vedral on Portals to a New Reality
Jan 21, 2026
Can Art Affect Belief Systems?
Jan 14, 2026
Roger Penrose on Cosmology, Quantum Mechanics, and Deep Reality
Jan 07, 2026
Toward a Cognitive Science of Transcendence
Dec 31, 2025
Dean Radin on The Science of Magic and The Fabric of Reality
Dec 24, 2025
Is Mathematics Invented or Discovered?
Dec 17, 2025
Global Philosophy: Why Inner Life Practices?
Dec 10, 2025
Blaise Agüera y Arcas: What is Intelligence in an AI Future?
Dec 03, 2025
Global Philosophy: What is the Person?
Nov 26, 2025
Stephen Wolfram on The Concept of the Ruliad
Nov 19, 2025
Global Philosophy: Is God Ultimate?
Nov 12, 2025
Daniel Whiteson on Aliens, Physics, and the Nature of Reaity
Nov 05, 2025
Death, Life After Death, & Reincarnation
Oct 29, 2025
Is Consciousness Ultimate?
Oct 22, 2025
Roger Penrose on Deep Reality and Quantum Mechanics
Oct 15, 2025
Is Mathematics Eternal?
Oct 08, 2025
What is Global Philosophy of Religion?
Oct 01, 2025
Stephen Wolfram on Physics and Computation
Sep 24, 2025
What Does Transhumanism Foreshadow?
Sep 17, 2025
Can We Explore Transcendence Via Art and Mind?
Sep 10, 2025
Can Philosophy Discern Sex and Gender?
Sep 03, 2025
Can Near-Death Experiences Affect Consciousness Theories?
Aug 27, 2025
Evolution vs. Religion: Anything New?
Aug 20, 2025
Clément Vidal on Life's Biggest Questions
Aug 13, 2025
How did Cognition and Emotion Evolve?
Aug 06, 2025
Mark Bailey on AI: Consciousness, Dangers, and Morality
Jul 30, 2025
What is Human Nature?
Jul 23, 2025
Julia Mossbridge on AI: Is There a Soul in the Machine?
Jul 16, 2025
How do Reductionism and Emergence Dance?
Jul 09, 2025
James Hughes on AI Consciousness: Buddhism & Posthuman Futures
Jul 02, 2025
What are Units or Levels of Selection?
Jun 25, 2025
Zoltan Istvan on AI: Transhumanism and Deepfakes
Jun 18, 2025
How Can Philosophy Probe Evolutionary Biology?
Jun 11, 2025
Chris French on the Science of Weird Shit
Jun 04, 2025
What Would Alien Life & Intelligences Mean?
May 28, 2025
Jonathan Schooler on the Psychology of Artificial Intelligence
May 21, 2025
Joseph Corabi: Could Superintelligent AI Defeat Itself?
May 16, 2025
Eastern Traditions: What are Ultimate Existence and Essence?
May 14, 2025
Zorana Pringle on the Science of Creativity & Decision-Making
May 07, 2025
Can Dualism Explain Consciousness?
Apr 30, 2025
Robin Hanson on the Age of AI and Large Language Models
Apr 25, 2025
Terry Sejnowski on ChatGPT and the Future of AI
Apr 22, 2025
What is the Philosophy of Scientific Breakthroughs?
Apr 15, 2025
Aspects of Consciousness
Apr 09, 2025
What is Extended Mind?
Apr 02, 2025
Does a Fine-Tuned Universe Lead to God?
Mar 26, 2025
Annaka Harria on Consciousness and the Cosmos
Mar 19, 2025
Do Human Brains Have Free Will?
Mar 12, 2025
Janna Levin on Cosmology: Black Holes, the Big Bang, and More
Mar 05, 2025
Implications of Cosmology?
Feb 26, 2025
Philip Goff and Helen De Cruz on Finding (and Losing) Their Religion
Feb 19, 2025
Why Explore Consciousness and Cosmos?
Feb 12, 2025
Nathan Lents on The Sexual Evolution
Feb 05, 2025
The Ultimate Questions of Existence
Jan 29, 2025
Why is the Quantum So Strange?
Jan 22, 2025
Richard Swinburne on Evil, Atonement, and Evidence Against God
Jan 15, 2025
Robert Lawrence Kuhn on "A Landscape of Consciousness"
Jan 08, 2025
How is God the Creator?
Dec 25, 2024
What's Real About Time?
Dec 18, 2024
Arguments Against God?
Dec 11, 2024
What is the Large-Scale Structure of the Universe?
Dec 04, 2024
Solutions to the Mind-Body Problem?
Nov 27, 2024
Sara Imari Walker on Physics, Emergence, and Life on Other Planets
Nov 20, 2024
Richard Dawkins on Evolution, Atheism, and Aliens
Nov 13, 2024
Would Intelligent Aliens Undermine God?
Nov 06, 2024
Greg Epstein on Technology, Morality, and Religion
Oct 30, 2024
How do Breakthroughs Happen in Physics?
Oct 23, 2024
What's Beyond Physics?
Oct 16, 2024
Is Race Real?
Oct 09, 2024
What are the Limits of Science?
Oct 02, 2024
What is the Far Future of the Universe?
Sep 25, 2024
David Papineau on Consciousness, Physics, & the Mind-Body Problem
Sep 18, 2024
How Do Human Brains Think and Feel?
Sep 11, 2024
Is Consciousness Ultimate Reality?
Aug 28, 2024
Does the Cosmos Provide Meaning?
Aug 21, 2024
What is God?
Aug 14, 2024
Or Graur on the Big Bang and the Physics of Galaxies
Aug 07, 2024
Can We Survive Death?
Jul 31, 2024
Does Philosophy Help Science?
Jul 24, 2024
Is Human Consciousness Special?
Jul 17, 2024
Ned Block on Perception, Cognition, and Consciousness
Jul 10, 2024
Are Plants Sentient?
Jul 03, 2024
Are Suffering and Ritual Vital?
Jun 26, 2024
Why is There Anything at All?
Jun 19, 2024
Brian Swimme on Consciousness, Cultural Evolution, and the Noosphere
Jun 12, 2024
What is Evolutionary Developmental Biology?
Jun 05, 2024
Eastern Traditions: What is the Human Person?
May 29, 2024
Sean Carroll on Physics, the Multiverse, and Quantum Mechanics
May 24, 2024
What are Scientific Breakthroughs in Biology?
May 15, 2024
Why are Black Holes so Astonishing?
May 08, 2024
Anna Abraham on the Neuroscience of the Creative Brain
May 01, 2024
Robert Wright on Evolution and the Future of Humanity
Apr 24, 2024
Eastern Traditions: What is World? What is Reality?
Apr 17, 2024
Nick Bostrom on Superintelligence and the Future of AI
Apr 10, 2024
Paul Thagard on AI, Animal Consciousness, and Human Intelligence
Apr 03, 2024
Helen De Cruz on What Makes Life Worth Living
Mar 27, 2024
Why Philosophy of Biology?
Mar 20, 2024
Marcelo Gleiser on Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience
Mar 13, 2024
Does Consciousness Require a Radical Explanation?
Mar 06, 2024
What Does the “Unreasonable Effectiveness” of Mathematics Mean?
Feb 28, 2024
Carlo Rovelli on White Holes
Feb 21, 2024
Ilia Delio on Evolution, Quantum Physics, and Neuroscience in Theology
Feb 14, 2024
Can Mathematics Explain Biology?
Feb 07, 2024
Roger Penrose: Mathematics & What Exists
Jan 24, 2024
Is Mathematics Invented or Discovered?
Jan 16, 2024
What is the Deep Meaning of Probability?
Jan 10, 2024
Martin Rees on Cosmology and Existential Risk
Jan 03, 2024
When Brains Go Bad
Dec 27, 2023
Jesus as God: A Philosophical Inquiry
Dec 20, 2023
Freeman Dyson: From Physics to the Far Future
Dec 13, 2023
How Does the Subconscious Affect Us?
Dec 06, 2023
What Are Breakthroughs in Mathematics?
Nov 29, 2023
Terrence Deacon on the Noosphere
Nov 22, 2023
Philip Goff on the Purpose of the Universe
Nov 08, 2023
Why is Mathematics True and Beautiful?
Nov 01, 2023
Can We Survive Death?
Oct 25, 2023
Can Art Probe Creativity?
Oct 18, 2023
What Makes Brains Conscious?
Oct 11, 2023
Dan Dennett on the Mysteries of the Mind
Oct 04, 2023
Will Kinney on Cosmic Inflation and the Beginning of the Universe
Sep 27, 2023
The Marvels of Space-Time
Sep 20, 2023
Samuel Lebens on Jewish Philosophy
Sep 13, 2023
What Exists?
Sep 06, 2023
What Are Dreams About?
Aug 30, 2023
What is Time?
Aug 23, 2023
Do Angels and Demons Exist?
Aug 16, 2023
Dr. Aomawa Shields on Life on Other Planets
Aug 09, 2023
How to Decipher Deception in Evolution?
Aug 02, 2023
Paul Davies on What’s Eating the Universe (Part 2)
Jul 26, 2023
Paul Davies on What’s Eating the Universe (Part 1)
Jul 26, 2023
How Do Humans Differ from Other Animals?
Jul 19, 2023
Frank Wilczek on the Future of Science (Part 2)
Jul 12, 2023
Frank Wilczek on the Future of Science (Part 1)
Jul 12, 2023
Can Art Clarify The Mind-Body Problem?
Jul 05, 2023
Sara Manning Peskin on the Deepest Mysteries of our Brains
Jun 28, 2023
What are Scientific Breakthroughs in Physics?
Jun 21, 2023
Did the Universe Have a Beginning?
Jun 14, 2023
How Does Deception Affect Human Behavior?
Jun 07, 2023
Tim Palmer on Doubt: From Quantum Physics to Climate Change
May 31, 2023
Where Are They, All Those Aliens?
May 24, 2023
Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam on How Thinking Emerged from Chaos
May 18, 2023
The Multiverse: What’s Real?
May 10, 2023
Michio Kaku on Quantum Supremacy
May 03, 2023
Hilary Lawson on Closure
Apr 26, 2023
Are There Extra Dimensions?
Apr 19, 2023
Manil Suri on How to Build the Universe with Math
Apr 12, 2023
Why is Consciousness Baffling?
Apr 05, 2023
What is Philosophy of the Breakthrough Process?
Mar 29, 2023
Nicholas Humphrey on Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness
Mar 22, 2023
Is Time Travel Possible?
Mar 15, 2023
Jill Tarter on Alien Intelligences, Extraterrestrial Technology, and SETI
Mar 08, 2023
What are Scientific Breakthroughs in Physics?
Mar 01, 2023
Sean Carroll on the Biggest Ideas in the Universe
Feb 22, 2023
Is Death Final?
Feb 15, 2023
Donald Hoffman on Reality, Consciousness, and Conscious Agents
Feb 08, 2023
What are Scientific Breakthroughs in Biology?
Feb 01, 2023
Sabine Hossenfelder on Physics and the Big Questions
Jan 25, 2023
How the Subconscious Affects Us
Jan 18, 2023
Stephon Alexander on the Fear of a Black Universe
Jan 11, 2023
What is Philosophy of Biology?
Jan 04, 2023
Noam Chomsky on Closer To Truth’s Big Questions (Part 4)
Dec 21, 2022
Noam Chomsky on Linguistic Theories and the Evolution of Language (Part 3)
Dec 21, 2022
Noam Chomsky on Theories of Linguistics (Part 2)
Dec 14, 2022
Noam Chomsky on Intellectual History and Reflections (Part 1)
Dec 14, 2022
Sir Roger Penrose on Consciousness and New Physics
Dec 07, 2022
Sir Roger Penrose on Spacetime, Quantum Mechanics, and General Relativity
Dec 07, 2022
Sir Roger Penrose on Mathematics and World Reflections
Dec 07, 2022
What's Beyond Physics?
May 12, 2021
Can the Brain Explain Art?
May 05, 2021
What is Philosophy of Art?
Apr 28, 2021
Can Metaphysics Discover Surprises?
Apr 21, 2021
The Mystery of Existence
Apr 14, 2021
Can Art Clarify the Mind-Body Problem?
Apr 07, 2021
Does Information Create the Cosmos?
Mar 31, 2021
Big Questions in Free Will (Part 1)
Mar 24, 2021
What Exists? (Part 2)
Mar 17, 2021
Can the Cosmos Have a Reason?
Mar 10, 2021
Can Brain Explain Mind?
Mar 03, 2021
Where are All Those Aliens?
Feb 24, 2021
Big Questions in Free Will (Part 2)
Dec 30, 2020
What is the Mind-Body Problem?
Dec 11, 2020
Why a Fine-Tuned Universe?
Dec 09, 2020
Why is There Something Rather Than Nothing?
Dec 02, 2020
How Could God Interact with the World?
Nov 25, 2020
Toward a Science of Consciousness
Nov 18, 2020
Did Our Universe Have a Beginning?
Nov 11, 2020
Arguing God from Design
Nov 04, 2020
What are Dreams About?
Oct 28, 2020
Did God Create Time?
Oct 21, 2020
Could Our Universe Be a Fake?
Oct 14, 2020
Do Persons Have Souls?
Oct 07, 2020
Why is There Anything at All? (Part 2)
Sep 30, 2020
Arguing God's Existence
Sep 23, 2020
Is Consciousness an Illusion?
Sep 16, 2020
Is the Universe Fine-Tuned for Life and Mind?
Sep 09, 2020
Can Design Point to God?
Sep 03, 2020
Are Brain and Mind the Same Thing?
Aug 26, 2020
How Does Beauty Color the Cosmos?
Aug 19, 2020
Does God Make Sense?
Aug 12, 2020
Why is Consciousness so Mysterious?
Aug 05, 2020
Is This the End Time?
Jul 26, 2020
How do Brains Work?
Jul 22, 2020
Can Science Deal With God?
Jul 17, 2020
Arguing God From Morality
Jul 01, 2020
Confronting Consciousness
Jun 24, 2020
What Things Really Exist?
Jun 17, 2020
How Can God Not be Free?
Jun 10, 2020
How Are Brains Structured?
Jun 03, 2020
How Vast is the Cosmos?
May 27, 2020
Arguing God From First Cause
May 20, 2020
What is Truth?
May 13, 2020
What is Philosophy of Art?
Mar 09, 2020
Can Art Clarify the Mind-Body Problem?
Mar 09, 2020
Why Anything at All? (Part 2)
Mar 09, 2020
Can the Brain Explain Art?
Mar 09, 2020
What Exists II?
Jul 30, 2019
Salvation - A Philosophical Inquiry
Jul 24, 2019
Atonement - A Philosophical Inquiry
Jul 24, 2019
Jesus as God - A Philosophical Inquiry
Jul 24, 2019
What's Strong Emergence?
Jul 24, 2019
Is the Person All Material?
Jun 17, 2019
Why is Consciousness Baffling?
May 21, 2019
Is the Anthropic Principle Significant?
Jan 17, 2019
What is Philosophy of Cosmology?
Jan 17, 2019
What is Fine-Tuning in Physics?
Jan 17, 2019
What is Fine-Tuning in Cosmology?
Jan 17, 2019
How Many Universes Exist?
Dec 20, 2018
What Would Multiple Universes Mean?
Dec 20, 2018
The Multiverse: What's Real?
Dec 20, 2018
What's the New Atheism?
Aug 23, 2018
Can Religion be Explained without God?
Aug 23, 2018
Would Multiple Universes Undermine God?
Aug 23, 2018
Epistemology: How Do I Know?
Jul 26, 2018
What is Analytic Theology?
Jul 26, 2018
Challenges of Analytic Theology
Jul 26, 2018
Do Science & Religion Conflict?
Jul 10, 2018
Why Consonance in Science and Religion?
Jul 10, 2018
Cosmology and Creation?
Jul 10, 2018
Does ESP Reveal Spirit Existence?
Mar 22, 2018
What Could ESP Mean?
Mar 22, 2018
How Could ESP Work?
Mar 22, 2018
What is Information?
Feb 14, 2018
What is Time?
Feb 14, 2018
Can the Cosmos Have a Reason?
Feb 14, 2018
Death Disrupted?
Jan 02, 2018
Wondering about God
Jan 02, 2018
Is God Necessary?
Jan 02, 2018
Can Metaphysics Discern God?
Nov 30, 2017
Speculating about God?
Nov 30, 2017
How Could God Make Miracles?
Nov 30, 2017
Does the Cosmos Have a Reason?
Nov 07, 2017
Can the Mind Heal the Body?
Oct 12, 2017
What is Consciousness?
Oct 12, 2017
How Does Personal Identity Persist Through Time?
Oct 12, 2017
Does Cosmic Fine-Tuning Demand Explanation?
Sep 18, 2017
Time at Sea
Sep 18, 2017
Why a Body in a Resurrection?
Jul 28, 2017
Does Hell Reveal God?
Jul 28, 2017
What's in a Resurrection?
Jul 28, 2017
Science and the Future of Humanity
Jun 22, 2017
Is the Universe Theologically Ambiguous?
Jun 22, 2017
Observing Quanta, Observing Nature?
Jun 22, 2017
How Did the Universe Begin?
May 03, 2017
Why Philosophy of Physics & Cosmology?
May 02, 2017
What Maintains Personal Identity?
Apr 19, 2016
Does Metaphysics Reveal Reality?
Apr 19, 2016
Is There a Final Theory of Everything?
Apr 19, 2016
Why Is The Universe Breathtaking?
Mar 29, 2016
Must Multiple Universes Exist?
Mar 29, 2016
What Does An Expanding Universe Mean?
Mar 29, 2016
Can Metaphysics Discover Surprises?
Feb 23, 2016
The Mystery of Existence
Feb 23, 2016
What's Beyond Physics?
Feb 23, 2016
Does ESP Reveal Spirit Existence?
Feb 23, 2016
Why Is Free Will A Mystery?
Jan 08, 2016
Can Free Will Survive God's Foreknowledge?
Jan 06, 2016
Does God's Knowledge Ruin Free Will?
Jan 06, 2016
If God Knows the Future, What is Free Will?
Jan 06, 2016
Arguing God with Analytic Philosophy
Nov 16, 2015
Fallacies in Proving God Exists
Nov 16, 2015
How To Think About God's Existence
Nov 16, 2015
What Is Ultimate Reality?
Oct 20, 2015
What Things Are Real?
Oct 20, 2015
How Can Emergence Explain Reality?
Oct 20, 2015
Is God Responsible For Evil?
Oct 13, 2015
Does Evil Disprove God?
Sep 25, 2015