Episodes
Wednesday Dec 20, 2023
Jesus as God: A Philosophical Inquiry
Wednesday Dec 20, 2023
Wednesday Dec 20, 2023
Why the astonishing claim that Jesus is God? Not like God. Not representing God. But literally God? One need not be a Christian, or even a theist, to appreciate the arguments.
Featuring interviews with Sarah Coakley, N.T. Wright, Oliver Crisp, Eleonore Stump, C. Stephen Evans, and Ian McFarland.
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Wednesday Dec 13, 2023
Freeman Dyson: From Physics to the Far Future
Wednesday Dec 13, 2023
Wednesday Dec 13, 2023
Freeman Dyson, visionary extraordinaire, was one of the most inventive thinkers of our age: discovering new mathematics, challenging fundamental physics, colonizing space, searching for signatures of alien civilizations, imagining the far future of intelligence.
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Wednesday Dec 06, 2023
How Does the Subconscious Affect Us?
Wednesday Dec 06, 2023
Wednesday Dec 06, 2023
There is more to our mental lives than the current content of our awareness. Our subconscious affects what we sense, think, feel and do. How does the subconscious work its magic?
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Wednesday Nov 29, 2023
What Are Breakthroughs in Mathematics?
Wednesday Nov 29, 2023
Wednesday Nov 29, 2023
Call mathematics the purest form of knowledge, universal messaging anyone, anywhere, can understand. For math to advance, there must be breakthroughs, which may seem like magic. What are mathematical breakthroughs? How do they happen? How do they work?
Featuring interviews with Karen Uhlenbeck, Edward Witten, Michael Hopkins, Ivan Corwin, Gregory Chaitin, and Paul Davies.
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Wednesday Nov 22, 2023
Terrence Deacon on the Noosphere
Wednesday Nov 22, 2023
Wednesday Nov 22, 2023
Neuroanthropologist and co-chair of the N2 Conference Terrence Deacon discusses the noosphere, biological evolution, and the upcoming N2 conference hosted by scientific multimedia non-profit organization Human Energy to commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the Discovery of the Noosphere.
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Wednesday Nov 08, 2023
Philip Goff on the Purpose of the Universe
Wednesday Nov 08, 2023
Wednesday Nov 08, 2023
Why are we here? What's the point of existence? Philosopher and consciousness researcher Philip Goff tackles these questions and more in this discussion of his new book, Why? The Purpose of the Universe. Goff argues that it's time to move on from both God and atheism and instead look to cosmic purpose to understand the universe.
Philip Goff is a philosophy professor at Durham University, UK whose research focuses on philosophy of mind and consciousness.
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Wednesday Nov 01, 2023
Why is Mathematics True and Beautiful?
Wednesday Nov 01, 2023
Wednesday Nov 01, 2023
Does mathematics have two transcendent attributes: truth and beauty? What makes math true? What makes math beautiful? Are there different kinds of mathematical existence? How can math combine idealized perfection and explanatory simplicity?
Featuring interviews with Robbert Dijkgraaf, Edward Witten, Max Tegmark, Sabine Hossenfelder, and Jim Holt.
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Wednesday Oct 25, 2023
Can We Survive Death?
Wednesday Oct 25, 2023
Wednesday Oct 25, 2023
Do I disappear at death? My body? Sure, it's gone. But my awareness? Does my consciousness end forever? What could be more frightening! Is there any hope here?
Featuring interviews with Charles Tart, Richard Swinburne, Robert Park, James Tabor, and Keith Ward.
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Wednesday Oct 18, 2023
Can Art Probe Creativity?
Wednesday Oct 18, 2023
Wednesday Oct 18, 2023
Creativity generates art. How to discern the creative process in order to inform the nature of art? Conversely, how to discern art in order to inform the nature of the creative process?
Featuring interviews with Aaron Rosen, Antonius Roberts, Alfonse Borysewicz, Murray Watts, and Carl Plantinga.
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Wednesday Oct 11, 2023
What Makes Brains Conscious?
Wednesday Oct 11, 2023
Wednesday Oct 11, 2023
Everything I know -- everything! -- comes from my brain. Consciousness, our private sense of inner awareness, is the one big question to which we might find answers.
Featuring interviews with Arnold Scheibel, John Mazziotta, Christof Koch, Joseph LeDoux, and Stephen Chorover.
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