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Closer to Truth @closertotruth.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

CTT's Robert Lawrence Kuhn joined the brilliant Mind Chat team for a discussion of the landscape of consciousness yesterday. Watch the full discussion below.

FQxI @fqxi.org · 21/11/2025

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After 50+ years studying consciousness, Robert Lawrence Kuhn discovered something strange: The more we learn, the MORE theories we create. Not fewer. FQxI Article: qspace.fqxi.org/news/165289/... New Scientist Article: www.newscientist.com/article/2498...

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Closer to Truth @closertotruth.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

"Languages die and mathematical ideas do not." -G. H. Hardy

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Closer to Truth @closertotruth.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

We ask Daniel Whiteson:Is physics invented or discovered?

Closer to Truth @closertotruth.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

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.

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Closer to Truth @closertotruth.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Can Near Death Experiences be reduced to brain activity?

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Closer to Truth @closertotruth.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

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

Closer to Truth @closertotruth.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

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

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Closer to Truth @closertotruth.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

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 iai.tv/video/the-bi...

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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...

Closer to Truth @closertotruth.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Biblical scholar James Tabor on the untold story of the Virgin Mary. #religion #christianity #judaism

Aeon Magazine @aeon.co · 11/10/2025

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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

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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

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matt | infovoy @infovoy.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

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. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6es7...

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

Blaise Agüera y Arcas @blaiseaguera.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

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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.

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Closer to Truth @closertotruth.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

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? youtu.be/qqhEEovtKgw

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

Closer to Truth @closertotruth.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

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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 bigthink.com/the-long-gam...

Closer to Truth @closertotruth.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

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

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Closer to Truth @closertotruth.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Your weekly dose of Sir Roger Penrose. This week we ask Roger all about quantum mechanics. www.youtube.com/watch?v=d887...

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

Closer to Truth @closertotruth.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

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

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Closer to Truth @closertotruth.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

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. iai.tv/articles/new...

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Closer to Truth @closertotruth.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

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.

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Closer to Truth @closertotruth.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

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

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Closer to Truth @closertotruth.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

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. www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5G6... #consciousness #neuroscience

All 325+ Competing Consciousness Theories In One Video.

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Closer to Truth @closertotruth.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

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...

William Dembski - Arguing God's Existence

Closer to Truth @closertotruth.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

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. science.nasa.gov/blogs/webb/2...

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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,

Closer to Truth @closertotruth.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

“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

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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

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Closer to Truth @closertotruth.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

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...

John Hawthorne - How Does Philosophy Illuminate the Physical World?

Closer to Truth @closertotruth.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

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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...

W. Christopher Stewart - Philosophy of the Mind

Closer to Truth @closertotruth.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

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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. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TT4...

From Algebra to Cosmology: Stephen Wolfram on Physics & the Nature of the Universe

Closer to Truth @closertotruth.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

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Scientists and philosophers have no agreed theory of how consciousness emerges from physical processes in the brain. Join Closer to Truth's Robert Lawrence Kuhn as he surveys the possible answers to the perennial question of consciousness. iai.tv/video/a-land...

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A landscape of consciousness

Closer to Truth @closertotruth.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

What is the real purpose of cognition? We ask neuroanthropologist Terrence Deacon for his answer.

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Closer to Truth @closertotruth.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Our friends at the University of Latvia are looking for submissions to the upcoming international conference, The Grammar of Time: Ontologies and Practices Across Cultures. Details on the conference and the submission guidelines below: conferences.lu.lv/event/764/at...

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Closer to Truth @closertotruth.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Our good friend and CTT contributor John Leslie was recently interviewed for Religious Studies from @universitypress.cambridge.org. Read about John's time working in advertising before he became a philosopher, his development and defense of Axiarchism, and more. philpapers.org/archive/LOUA...

Closer to Truth @closertotruth.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

“A scientific world-view which does not profoundly come to terms with the problem of conscious minds can have no serious pretensions of completeness.” ― Roger Penrose

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Closer to Truth @closertotruth.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Neuroscientist Anil Seth on practical materialism as a consciousness theory. #consciousness #neuroscience #science #philosophy

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Closer to Truth @closertotruth.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Will we ever know the theory of everything? Answers from our rapid fire round with @seanmcarroll.bsky.social. #physics #cosmology #theoreticalphysics #philosophy

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Closer to Truth @closertotruth.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Humanity is about to change rapidly, it's already started. Are we ready what's about to happen? The last episode of our Philosophy of Biology season is live! Learn about transhumanism, humanity's melding with machine, AI, and more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB4a... #ai #transhumanism #biology

What does Transhumanism Foreshadow? | Closer To Truth

Closer to Truth @closertotruth.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

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Explore Closer to Truth's Robert Lawrence Kuhn's deep dive on consciousness studies.

Closer to Truth @closertotruth.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

If God is the perfect being then does that make this the best of all the possible worlds? How can a perfect being justify evil in the world? We ask Dean Zimmerman for answers: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrXe...

Dean Zimmerman - Is This the Best of All Possible Worlds?

Closer to Truth @closertotruth.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

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Join us virtually at the Science of Consciousness festival July 6-11! Watch over 100 talks and plenary sessions on #consciousness from Sir Roger Penrose, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Stuart Hameroff, and many more experts. Get your livestream tickets here: tscc.thefestivalofconsciousness.org

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Science of Consciousness Conference

The Science of Consciousness (TSC) is an interdisciplinary conference emphasizing broad and rigorous approaches to all aspects of the study and understanding of consciousness. Topical areas include ne...

Closer to Truth @closertotruth.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

We said goodbye to an extraordinary thinker and a dear friend over the weekend. Helen De Cruz was a renowned philosopher of cognitive science, mind, religion, art, and the humanities, and a remarkable human being. closertotruth.com/news/helen-d...