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27 seasons and counting exploring fundamental questions in Cosmos, Life, Mind, and Meaning with the world's top thinkers and scientists.

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The nature of human mind and consciousness is one of the perennial, deep questions in philosophy. Assuming that God exists, what happens to the question? In a God-created world, what would human mind be?
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How geoengineering could save us from climate disaster:
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After black holes devour stars, sometimes the feast comes back up. Could these cosmic burps rewrite physics?
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We ask Nancey Murphy to tackle one of the biggest problems haunting theology and philosophy of religion: The problem of evil. Does an omniscient God create evil or allow it and why?
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Has evolutionary psychology been a failure? For @IAI_TV, Philosopher of biology Subrena Smith argues that hidden ideological commitments that pass as truth must be revisited and that there is another, better framework of human behavior for us to consider.
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Are we really alone in the universe? Earth and the rest of the Milky Way could be floating in a billion-light-year-wide cosmic void, according to new research.
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Philosopher Galen Strawson has dismissed dualism, the theory that ultimate reality is composed of 2 categories: physical things and non-physical things. He expands on why dualism is so attractive as a theory and why he remains skeptical to its allures.
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Do the laws of physics explain everything?.
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“I know the memory is there, but I don’t have the key to open [it] anymore,” Hummel said. “Life becomes a much more insecure place without a sense of smell in many ways, but you only realize it when it’s gone.” How smell guides our inner world:
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Will there be a theory of everything? Watch part of our rapid fire question round with @seanmcarroll.
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Of all the big questions, this is the biggest. John Polkinghorne answers: Why anything? Why not nothing? What can we learn from the absence of nothing?.
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Thank you, Ken!.
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An excellent talk reflecting years of insightful journalism and philosophy from Robert Lawrence Kuhn @RobertLawrKuhn of Closer To Truth @CloserToTruth fame. Robert recently wrote a paper on the landscape of theories of consciousness, a labor of love to be cherished. #TSC2025
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We've explored free will as a scientific concept but what about its effects in our everyday lives? We ask Philosopher Walter Sinnott-Armstrong about the relationship between free will and moral responsibility.
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Are universities sanctuaries of free thought and intellectual rigor or have they become hotbeds for censorship and unworthy educations? Watch the @IAI_TV panel discussion on innovating the university with @epkaufm, @bureaucatliu, @yaronbrook .
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Can we truly know anything exists outside of our minds?.
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Humanity is about to change rapidly, in fact it's already started. Are we ready for what's next?. Our final episode from the Philosophy of Biology season is live! Watch and learn about transhumanism and humanity's melding with machine, AI, and more.
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RT @yujinnagasawa: The special open access issue on Experimental Philosophy of Religion, based on a project funded by the John Templeton Fo….
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Is music foundational or does it come from language? Philosopher Kathleen Higgens takes on the foundations of music considering two sides: @sapinker vs Nietzsche. Read more from @IAI_TV:.
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Psychologist Jonathan Schooler says the approach to psi-parapsychology is to "entertain without endorsing" and we ask him to explain his reasonings and any findings or insights about paranormal or parapsychological phenomenon.
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"When we label machines as superhuman, we reduce ourselves to task-completing automatons and ignore the richness of consciousness, empathy, and moral imagination." Philosopher Shannon Vallor on the truth behind the "superhuman AI" myth.
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