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That's a wrap! Coming soon: A new Chat with @ox.ac.uk Quantum Information Professor Vlatko Vedral about his book "Portals to a New Reality: Five Experiments to Unlock the Future of Physics" and how quantum physics can help us understand ultimate reality.

Can Near Death Experiences be reduced to brain activity?

Can we study parapsychology rigorously? We ask psychologist Dean Radin about he gets physics and mediums in the lab to test their alleged powers.

Building on last year's paper "The Landscape of Consciousness," Robert Lawrence Kuhn dives deeper into theories of consciousness and their implications.

The biology of conflict Conflicts between nations, religions, races, ethnicities, and political camps abound. Social media amplifies and inflames emotions. Can human biology offer a reason for, and a way out of, our modern p...

Watch Closer to Truth's Robert Lawrence Kuhn alongside philosophers Massimo Pigliucci and John Dupré, and neuroscientist Maria Balaet explore the biology of conflict for @iai.tv
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Biblical scholar James Tabor on the untold story of the Virgin Mary.

#religion #christianity #judaism

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Are observers fundamental to physics, or simply byproducts of it? | Aeon Videos What role, if any, does the observer play in fundamental physics? A cosmologist lays out the leading theories in the field

Are observers central to physics or merely bystanders to phenomena existing independently of consciousness?
Explore the role of first-person observation in fundamental physics with Bernard Carr, an emeritus professor of mathematics and astronomy, in this interview from @closertotruth.bsky.social

YouTube video by Closer To Truth Stephen Wolfram on The Concept of the Ruliad | Closer To Truth Chats

Stephen Wolfram on The Concept of the Ruliad | From @closertotruth.bsky.social Chats

One of several ideas I think of as a candidate to describe the relations of the qualitative relata I suspect to be the nonspatiotemporal possibilities, from which spacetime emerges.

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YouTube video by Closer To Truth Galen Strawson - Can AI Become Conscious?

Galen Strawson - Can AI Become Conscious? | From @closertotruth.bsky.social

#philosophy #consciousness #AI

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I hope one day more people will understand that AI’s early breakthroughs were deeply connected to neuroscience. It was a pleasure to discuss the history of AI and more on @closertotruth.bsky.social with Robert Lawrence Kuhn.

YouTube video by Closer To Truth Blaise Agüera y Arcas: What is Intelligence? | Closer To Truth Chats

Our chat with AI researcher and CTO of Technology & Society at Google @blaiseaguera.bsky.social is now live!

We ask Blaise about his new book on intelligence in our new AI-filled world, and we ask: Is prediction fundamental to intelligence, our brains, and even life itself?

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Scientist and Closer to Truth contributor Dr. Susan Schneider on the AI risks that no one is talking about and more

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Àlex Gómez-Marín on why we must explore scientific alternatives to materialism without gatekeeping or dismissiveness.

YouTube video by Closer To Truth Roger Penrose on Physics & Quantum Mechanics | Closer To Truth Chats

Your weekly dose of Sir Roger Penrose. This week we ask Roger all about quantum mechanics.

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We ask philosopher of science Silvia Jonas: Is mathematics invented or discovered?

From our HowTheLightGetsIn London series with @iai.tv: Could gravitation waves solve the issues with Big Bang Theory?

Physicists Bertacca and Jimenez propose that gravitational waves were key to the early universe and ultimately gave rise to galaxies, stars, and planets.
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Our partnership with the Institute of Art and Ideas
for the How The Light Gets In Festival London is now live.

Read how only silence can bridge the gap between the self and world.

Roger Penrose on Godel's theorem.

YouTube video by Closer To Truth Roger Penrose on the Deep Nature of Reality | Closer To Truth Chats

Part one of our interview with the remarkable Roger Penrose is now live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=89I7...

#ultimatereality #mathematics #physics

"Believe those who seek the truth. Doubt those who find it."
-Andre Gide

YouTube video by Essentia Foundation All 325+ Competing Consciousness Theories In One Video.

Last year, Closer to Truth's Robert Lawrence Kuhn mapped out 325 theories of consciousness in his seminal paper. He talked to Hans Busstra and Essentia Foundation about his work in the consciousness studies field and his personal views.
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YouTube video by Closer To Truth William Dembski - Arguing God's Existence

If God is the explanation for everything, the Universe, reality, then how do we explain God? We ask philosopher and mathematician William Dembski about the explanation and design of God. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fpgi...

New Moon Discovered Orbiting Uranus Using NASA’s Webb Telescope - NASA Science Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a team led by the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has identified a previously unknown moon orbiting Uranus,

Breaking news: Using @nasawebb.extwitter.link, a team led by the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has identified a previously unknown moon orbiting Uranus, expanding the planet’s known satellite family to 29.

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Far Out | Sean M. Carroll, Willa Glickman As scientists and researchers make sense of some of the major discoveries from the turn of the twenty-first century, “the present moment in the science of

“I am cautiously intrigued by recent hints that our standard cosmological model may need some upgrades.”

Read the interview with theoretical physicist (and Closer to Truth contributor) @seanmcarroll.bsky.social: bit.ly/4miZUBt

#physics #cosmology

Great conversation yesterday with @blaiseaguera.bsky.social on all things AI. Stay tuned!

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YouTube video by Closer To Truth John Hawthorne - How Does Philosophy Illuminate the Physical World?

Metaphysics has often been maligned but at its purest form, could it be considered natural philosophy? We ask Philosopher John Hawthorne for a history of metaphysics and what it can illuminate about our physical world and reality. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeXy...

Is virtual immortality possible?

YouTube video by Closer To Truth W. Christopher Stewart - Philosophy of the Mind

Can the arts help us crack the mind body problem? We ask W. Christopher Stewart for his thoughts on aesthetic cognitivism, transcendental experiences, the construction of the human mind. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQHU...

YouTube video by Closer To Truth From Algebra to Cosmology: Stephen Wolfram on Physics & the Nature of the Universe

Physicist and computer scientist Stephen Wolfram explores how simple rules can generate complex realities, offering a bold new vision of fundamental physics and the structure of the universe.
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