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Anil Seth on a New Science of Consciousness
May 27, 2026
1h 02m 22s
Why Philosophy of Evolutionary Biology?
May 13, 2026
27m 02s
Arnold Zuboff on Why You Are Every Conscious Being
May 6, 2026
32m 59s
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein on The Mattering Instinct
Apr 29, 2026
34m 47s
What Is The Far Future Of Intelligence
Apr 22, 2026
27m 01s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 5/27/26 | ![]() Anil Seth on a New Science of Consciousness | In this conversation, Anil Seth discusses a new scientific approach to consciousness — moving beyond the traditional “hard problem” toward explaining the actual properties of conscious experience. Robert Lawrence Kuhn and Seth explore phenomenology, neural correlates of consciousness, predictive perception, conscious selfhood, and why measuring consciousness may be essential for understanding it. Anil Seth is Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex and Co-Director of the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science. His research brings together neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, computer science, mathematics, and psychiatry to investigate the biological basis of consciousness.Seth's book, Being You: A New Science of Consciousness, is available for purchase in the UK and the US: https://amzn.to/3jI9ss7 Subscribe to Closer To Truth: https://www.youtube.com/@CloserToTruthTV Join the Community: Membership (5,000+ videos): https://closertotruth.com/register/ Audio Podcast: https://closertotruth.podbean.com Support the Show: https://closertotruth.com/donate/ Official Merchandise: https://www.bonfire.com/store/closertotruth/ Follow Us: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CloserToTruthTV/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/closertotruth/ X: https://x.com/CloserToTruth | 1h 02m 22s | ||||||
| 5/13/26 | ![]() Why Philosophy of Evolutionary Biology? | Why do we need philosophy to understand evolution? Robert Lawrence Kuhn explores the philosophy of evolutionary biology — not just how evolution works, but what its core concepts really mean. Through conversations with Elliott Sober, Richard Dawkins, Samir Okasha, John Dupré, Dennis Noble, and Michael Ruse, this episode examines natural selection, common ancestry, challenges to evolutionary theory, and the deeper implications of evolution for science, religion, and human identity. Featuring interviews with Elliott Sober, Richard Dawkins, Samir Okasha, John Dupré, Dennis Noble, and Michael Ruse.Subscribe to Closer To Truth: https://www.youtube.com/@CloserToTruthTV Join the Community: Membership (5,000+ videos): https://closertotruth.com/register/ Audio Podcast: https://closertotruth.podbean.com Support the Show: https://closertotruth.com/donate/ Official Merchandise: https://www.bonfire.com/store/closertotruth/ Follow Us: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CloserToTruthTV/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/closertotruth/ X: https://x.com/CloserToTruth | 27m 02s | ||||||
| 5/6/26 | ![]() Arnold Zuboff on Why You Are Every Conscious Being✨ | consciousnesspersonal identity+4 | Arnold Zuboff | University College LondonPrinceton | — | consciousnessuniversalism+4 | — | 32m 59s | |
| 4/29/26 | ![]() Rebecca Newberger Goldstein on The Mattering Instinct✨ | philosophyhuman significance+3 | Rebecca Newberger Goldstein | Princeton UniversityYale+9 | — | mattering instincthuman drive+3 | — | 34m 47s | |
| 4/22/26 | ![]() What Is The Far Future Of Intelligence✨ | future of intelligencecosmic timescales+3 | Freeman DysonLawrence Krauss+4 | Closer To Truth | — | intelligencefuture+5 | — | 27m 01s | |
| 4/15/26 | ![]() Roman Yampolskiy on How Dangerous Is Artificial Intelligence✨ | artificial intelligenceAI safety+3 | Roman Yampolskiy | University of LouisvilleAI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable | — | artificial intelligenceAI safety+3 | — | 47m 03s | |
| 4/8/26 | ![]() Michael James on What the World Is According to Sri Ramana✨ | philosophyself+4 | Michael James | Atma-Vidya: The Science of Knowing Oneself | — | Sri Ramana MaharshiMichael James+5 | — | 34m 40s | |
| 4/1/26 | ![]() Current Arguments for God✨ | arguments for Godscience and religion+3 | Rebecca GoldsteinIan Barbour+5 | — | — | GodCreator+4 | — | 27m 13s | |
| 3/25/26 | ![]() Can Brain Alone Explain Consciousness?✨ | consciousnessphilosophy of mind+3 | John SearleDavid Chalmers | — | — | consciousnessbrain+4 | — | 27m 10s | |
| 3/18/26 | ![]() Asking Ultimate Questions✨ | ultimate questionsexistence+4 | Lawrence KraussJohn Leslie+2 | — | — | ultimate questionsexistence+8 | — | 27m 16s | |
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| 3/11/26 | ![]() Why a Landscape of Consciousness?✨ | consciousnesstheories of consciousness+5 | — | Closer To TruthLandscape of Consciousness | — | consciousnessmaterialism+5 | — | 26m 46s | |
| 3/8/26 | ![]() What Life Might Come After Death?✨ | afterlifereligion+4 | — | What Life Might Come After Death? | — | afterlifesoul+6 | — | 26m 46s | |
| 2/25/26 | ![]() Could Theories of Consciousness Affect Life After Death?✨ | consciousnesslife after death+3 | — | Could Theories of Consciousness Affect Life After Death? | — | consciousnesslife after death+3 | — | 27m 10s | |
| 2/18/26 | ![]() Raymond Tallis on the Mystery of Human Beings✨ | explicitnessmystery of human beings+4 | Raymond Tallis | Circling Round Explicitness: The Heart of the Mystery of Human Being | — | explicitnessmystery+5 | — | 25m 18s | |
| 2/11/26 | ![]() What do Theories of Consciousness Mean? | What causes consciousness, our inner felt experience, like the smell of garlic cooking in olive oil? Explore diverse theories from quantum consciousness to consciousness as fundamental reality. We seek the edges of consciousness. | 1h 09m 34s | ||||||
| 2/4/26 | ![]() Can Art Harmonize Diverse Religions? | Almost all religions use art in their sacred spaces and many use art forms in their worship rituals. Certainly, there is powerful social cohesion at work. Can cross-religion communications in art, largely nonverbal, work to enhance similarities and mitigate differences among religions that, at least superficially, have significant differences? Can art be a much-needed unifier? Featuring interviews with Oludamini Ogunnaike, Jamal Elias, Kutter Callaway, Garrick Allen, and Anjan Chatterjee. | 27m 10s | ||||||
| 1/21/26 | ![]() Vlatko Vedral on Portals to a New Reality | Oxford physicist Vlatko Vedral seeks to shatter complacency in modern physics and show why five revolutionary experiments in quantum physics promise to open the gates separating us from a true understanding of the universe. They may sound very strange—one essentially involves entangling a human with Schrödinger’s cat—but they lay bare elements of our theories that are particularly problematic, such as the widespread belief that nothing truly exists unless it is observed. Vedral's book, Portals to a New Reality: Five Experiments to Unlock the Future of Physics, is available for purchase: https://amzn.to/3LGqd77 Vlatko Vedral is a Serbian-born British physicist. He is best known for his contributions to quantum information theory, quantum mechanics, and quantum entanglement. He earned his Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Imperial College London, where he graduated with a PhD. | 39m 47s | ||||||
| 1/14/26 | ![]() Can Art Affect Belief Systems? | Many belief systems, religions in particular, use art for promoting their messages and furthering their missions. What makes art so effective in building and solidifying religious traditions? Can art attract and motivate converts? Is affecting or changing belief systems a proper use of art? Featuring interviews with Justin Barrett, Marlene Altenmüller, Mario Gollwitzer, Jamal Elias, Robin Jensen, and Stacie Friend. | 27m 16s | ||||||
| 1/7/26 | ![]() Roger Penrose on Cosmology, Quantum Mechanics, and Deep Reality | Throughout his career, Penrose has challenged conventional wisdom in physics, mathematics, and the philosophy of science. He has tackled some of the most profound questions of the universe: How do quantum mechanics and cosmology shape our understanding of reality? Can human consciousness be fully explained by physical laws, or does it transcend computation? This wide-ranging conversation spans Penrose’s most influential ideas, from black holes and the Big Bang to Gödel’s incompleteness theorems, quantum gravity, and the role of mathematics in uncovering ultimate reality. | 1h 47m 31s | ||||||
| 12/31/25 | ![]() Toward a Cognitive Science of Transcendence | Understanding the nature of transcendence requires careful experimentation and innovative ways to reveal essence and tease out aspects of aesthetics. What are key characteristics of transcendence? Tracking imperceptible eye movements, or brain blood flow during mental activity, reflect neural activity, which is always ready to spring surprise. Featuring interviews with Elisabeth Schellekens, Helen De Cruz, Kutter Callaway, Joshua Wilt, Bahador Bahrami, and Oludamini Ogunnaike. | 27m 17s | ||||||
| 12/24/25 | ![]() Dean Radin on The Science of Magic and The Fabric of Reality | There is an idea that shakes the core of our scientific principles: That our consciousness participates in creating our physical reality. It’s an idea that runs counter to the materialist worldview we’re all taught in school. But the outer edges of scientific inquiry bleed into what can only be called ‘magic.’ With a uniquely science-backed approach, parapsychologist Dean Radin explores the "magical" elements of consciousness including telepathy, spell casting, conjuring spirits, and more. Radin's book, The Science of Magic: How the Mind Weaves the Fabric of Reality, is on sale now. Dean Radin is an American parapsychologist. Following a bachelor and master's degree in electrical engineering and a PhD in educational psychology Radin worked at Bell Labs, as a researcher at Princeton University and the University of Edinburgh, and was a faculty member at University of Nevada, Las Vegas. | 41m 42s | ||||||
| 12/17/25 | ![]() Is Mathematics Invented or Discovered? | Mathematics describes the real world of atoms and acorns, stars and stairs, with remarkable precision. So is mathematics invented by humans—like chisels and hammers and pieces of music? Or is mathematics discovered—always out there, somewhere, like mysterious islands waiting to be found? Whenever mathematics is will help define reality itself. Featuring interviews with Roger Penrose, Stephen Wolfram, Max Tegmark, David Gross, and George Lakoff. | 51m 16s | ||||||
| 12/10/25 | ![]() Global Philosophy: Why Inner Life Practices? | Compare inner-life practices among diverse religions/traditions. Islamic prayer as the core of Muslim belief. Buddhist meditation calms the mind. Hindu meditation can be theistic-devotional or non-dual inner exploration. Embodied practices in Chinese traditions. Featuring interviews with Helen De Cruz, Venerable Dr. Yifa, Swami Sarvapriyananda, Franklin Perkins, Aaron Segal, and Hamza Yusuf. | 27m 02s | ||||||
| 12/3/25 | ![]() Blaise Agüera y Arcas: What is Intelligence in an AI Future? | This holiday season, support Closer To Truth with a tax-deductible donation of any amount. What is intelligence, and how is AI emergence a natural consequence of evolution? In his book "What Is Intelligence?" and in this conversation, Google's Blaise Agüera y Arcas takes up the idea that prediction is fundamental not only to intelligence and the brain but to life itself, and explores the wide-ranging implications. These include radical new perspectives on the computational properties of living systems, the evolutionary and social origins of intelligence, the relationship between models and reality, entropy and the nature of time, the meaning of free will, the problem of consciousness, and the ethics of machine intelligence. Blaise Agüera y Arcas is a VP/Fellow at Google, where he is the CTO of Technology & Society, and the founder of Paradigms of Intelligence, an organization dedicated to fundamental AI research. He is the author of Who Are We Now?, and his research has included work on privacy-preserving machine learning, on-device AI, large language models, and human identity. | 28m 37s | ||||||
| 11/26/25 | ![]() Global Philosophy: What is the Person? | Giving Tuesday is around the corner! Make a donation to Closer To Truth to help us continue exploring the world's deepest questions without the need for paywalls. How do diverse religions/traditions treat the “person,” present status and afterlife future? Buddhism’s no self. Hinduism’s soul illuminating the mind. Prior lives in Eastern and African traditions. Body and soul, resurrection and judgment, in Abrahamic traditions. Featuring interviews with Jay Garfield, Yang Xiao, Oludamini Ogunnaike, Imran Aijaz, Andrew Loke, and Swami Medhananda. | 27m 17s | ||||||
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