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Are consciousness and life a 'which came first- chicken or the egg' question? Stuart Hameroff, Anirban Bandyopadhyay + Dante Lauretta on why there is good reason to believe that consciousness came before life as part of our series with
@IAI_TV
Read now:
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What do you think is the best theory of consciousness?
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"Consciousness is a singular of which the plural is unknown." - Erwin Schrödinger
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Sean Carroll (
@seanmcarroll
) discusses the rise of scientific atheism in this interview series. Click here to watch:
#atheism
#meaning
#skeptic
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"Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real."
-Niels Bohr
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Join us in wishing Closer to Truth contributor
@DavidDeutschOxf
a very happy birthday!
Watch this enlightening CTT episode where he discusses the nature of truth at the link below.
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"I changed my views studying near-death experiences; consciousness isn't as we think."
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"The hard problem comes after we’ve explained all of these functions of the brain, where we are still left with a puzzle: Why is the carrying out of these functions accompanied by experience?"
Read CTT contributor
@Philip_Goff
's article on consciousness:
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The irreplaceable philosopher Daniel Dennett has passed away.
Dennett made incredible contributions to philosophy and we will miss his indomitable wit and thoughtfulness.
As a testament to his legacy, we would like to share our last interview with him:
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"The mind is the effect, not the cause."
—Daniel Dennett
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“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.”
― Richard Feynmann
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Scientists normally think as consciousness as a product of evolution and therefore, life but could it be the other way around?
Read about a new theory of life from
@StuartHameroff
and collaborators
@anirbanbandyo
and Dante Lauretta for
@IAI_TV
:
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Our chat with Sean Carroll is now live! We discuss Sean's new book "Quanta and Fields: The Biggest Ideas in the Universe" and have an in-depth discussion of wave functions, the multiverse, quantum mechanics, and more.
Watch now and chat with CTT fans:
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T-minus one week until
@NASA
's InSight lander arrives at Mars! Getting to the Red Planet is half of the battle - landing will be a whole other challenge. Read more here: via
@SPACEdotcom
#space
#insight
#nasa
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Today is
#WorldBookDay
! To celebrate, we thought we'd snap a
#shelfie
for you guys. What's on your bookshelf? On ours, I see
@seanmcarroll
,
@mcleish_t
,
@carlorovelli
,
@tegmark
,
@davideagleman
,
@kipthorne
,
@lmlodinow
! Which one would you read, if you had your pick?
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"One possibility is: God is nothing but the power of the universe to organize itself."
Lee Smolin
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Sabine Hossenfelder talks about if the past exists, how the universe began and how it will end, time, consciousness, and her new book, Existential Physics: A Scientist’s Guide to Life’s Biggest Questions.
Order Existential Physics:
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"Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer
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Once ridiculed, panpsychism has gone mainstream.
@Philip_Goff
, a main defenders of panpsychism, now turns his attention towards another taboo question: does the universe as a whole have a purpose?
Read the interview with
@RickyWilliamso
for
@IAI_TV
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“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard
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How close are we to finding a sign of consciousness within the brain?
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"Well, if I were God, Daniel Dennett would be my prophet."
Read Closer to Truth's Robert Lawrence Kuhn's tribute to Daniel Dennett:
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Why are we here? What's the point of existence? We sat down with Philosopher
@philip_goff
to discuss life's big questions, his new book, and the purpose of the universe.
Watch the interview on the Closer to Truth YouTube channel now:
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What do you believe quantum physics can tell us about consciousness?
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Is the Universe conscious? A panpsychism Q&A with philosopher Philip Goff
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“It may seem as though the self – your self – is the ‘thing’ that does the perceiving. But this is not how things are. The self is another perception, another controlled hallucination, though of a very special kind. ”
- Anil Seth
@anilkseth
#consciousness
#neuroscience
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One of humanity’s ultimate questions is asking how our universe was created. Is cosmic inflation the answer?
On Monday, Physicist
@WKCosmo
discusses inflation, quantum uncertainty and writing a book about astrophysics for a layperson.
Sign up to watch:
:
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Seek insights, not answers: Discover the landscape of consciousness with Closer to Truth's Robert Lawrence Kuhn's new paper on
@ElsevierConnect
Read now:
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Stay tuned for a captivating new interview with neuroscientist
@kenmogi
that explores the questions, "What is consciousness? And how do we begin to define it?"
Watch the new video at 11 AM ET tomorrow on the Closer to Truth YouTube channel.
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The real problem of consciousness. Read the latest from CTT contributor
@anilkseth
for
@aeonmag
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"The emperor of physics defends his controversial theory of mind."
Roger Penrose on CTT playlist:
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“Perception is not a window on objective reality. It is an interface that hides objective reality behind a veil of helpful icons.”
― Donald D. Hoffman
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@NYTScience
We got to speak to brilliant physicists (
@carlorovelli
,
@seanmcarroll
,
@tegmark
& more) on events & the nature of time. What is time? Does it move in a straight line? Does it exist when no events are occurring? Is it just 'the sequence of events? Find out:
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How do you you think that life arose from non-living?
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Was
#mathematics
invented by human minds or was it discovered? In this interview, Theoretical Physicist and Mathematician Frank Wilczek (
@FrankWilczek
) believes that both options are correct. Watch his interview here:
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Our minds seem both physical and intangible. That paradox has gripped this neuroscientist
@anilkseth
since childhood.
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"Plato is my friend — Aristotle is my friend — but my greatest friend is truth."
—Isaac Newton
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Does the
#cosmos
have a reason?
@michaelshermer
doesn’t necessarily think so. Watch him explain:
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A brand new interview series "
#physics
of
#consciousness
" w/
@seanmcarroll
,
@tegmark
+ David Chalmers now available:
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"We have something of a mental block when it comes to quantum mechanics, and we need a bit of quantum therapy to help get past it."
Read an excerpt of
@seanmcarroll
's new book,
#SomethingDeeplyHidden
-
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Sir Roger Penrose on Consciousness and New Physics (Part 3)
Can the laws of physics explain consciousness? Can the mind be duplicated by a computer? What is consciousness and how does it relate to Penrose's Search for a Missing Science of Consciousness?
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University of Oxford chemist Peter Atkins has made the digital version of his book Concepts in Physical Chemistry free:
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"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."
―Marie Curie
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We ask physicists like
@seanmcarroll
+ Paul Davies ‘why the cosmos?’ in our new interview series. Click to watch:
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Does string theory still have a place in theoretical physics? Watch the debate between Sir Roger Penrose,
@bgreene
,
@tasneemzhusain
, and
@EricRWeinstein
during the
@HTLGIFestival
📺 Watch it on
@IAI_TV
now:
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"My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all."
-Stephen Hawking
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A philosopher and a neuroscientist come together to discuss consciousness: whether it happens inside or outside the brain, if reality is a hallucination, and perception.
Read
@anilkseth
and Riccardo Manzotti for
@IAI_TV
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“Time and space are not conditions of existence, time and space is a model for thinking.”
—Albert Einstein
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What does the complexity we see in the
#cosmos
mean?
@seanmcarroll
offers his take in this interview:
#physics
#universe
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Consciousness is the collapse of the wave function
by Stuart Hameroff
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In his new book, “Sentience,” a neuropsychologist argues that consciousness evolved to make us feel that life is worth living:
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Click for new interviews with
@seanmcarroll
discussing
#physics
,
#cosmology
,
#philosophy
and more:
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“If anyone can refute me—show me I’m making a mistake or looking at things from the wrong perspective—I’ll gladly change. It’s the truth I’m after, and the truth never harmed anyone.”
Marcus Aurelius
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Some light free will humor for your Friday afternoon!
Watch interviews and full-length TV episodes about the free will debate:
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Don't miss the "New Science of Consciousness" debate at
@HTLGIFestival
with CTT host Robert Lawrence Kuhn,
@carlorovelli
,
@patchurchland
, and
@BernardoKastrup
.
Get 20% off tickets using the code CLOSERTOTRUTH20 at checkout:
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"The 10,000-year clock is neither a frightening distraction, as its critics scorn, nor the admirable objective its fans claim. It’s something else - a monument to long-term thinking that can unlock a deeper more thoughtful spirit of interpretive patience."
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Lots of things exist. But what is so absolutely fundamental in that it cannot be further reduced into anything more?
Watch to learn more about the fundamentals of our universe with Physicist Max Tegmark (
@tegmark
)
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Closer To Truth has redesigned its website to offer a more engaging, seamless experience for visitors to discover and interact with its database of thousands of in-depth interviews with the world’s leading scientists and philosophers.
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"Instead of a measurable, quantifiable thing that exists independently out in the world, we suggest that intelligence is a label, pinned by humanity onto a bag stuffed with a jumble of independent traits that helped our ancestors thrive. "
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“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”
― Benjamin Franklin
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“Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.”
― Max Planck
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What are the biggest questions about life and our universe?
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"So I am here to say that, at least linguistically, “consciousness” is well-defined, and that this isn’t really a matter of opinion. "
Neuroscientist
@erikphoel
weighs in on the consciousness debate.
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During our trip to
@FQXi
's conference on the Physics of Information, we spoke to many great thinkers on this topic. Is information the foundational unit of reality? Listen to physicists Seth Lloyd,
@SeanMCarroll
, Alan Guth (& more) answer here:
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What are the big questions concerning the universe, life on Earth, and humanity that you ponder on a regular basis?
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"Either mathematics is too big for the human mind, or the human mind is more than a machine."
—Kurt Gödel
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TODAY @ 1 PM ET: How Time Works with Sean Carroll, presented by
@newscientist
Book tickets:
"The tendency of things to become messy is really responsible for all of the differences between the past and the future."
-
@seanmcarroll
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"We find similar ideas of a transcendent ego in both Kant and the Upanishads. We find a rejection of free will in Schopenhauer and Ramana Maharshi. What should we make of this overlap between Western and Indian philosophy?"
Read more from
@IAI_TV
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Is humanity's "meaning of life" different from other animals?
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How should we measure time? Our new interview series ‘events + the nature of
#time
’ asks
@seanmcarroll
+ others:
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"In order to have the kind of free will that nearly everyone believes we have, the future must not exist at all."
Philosopher David Kyle Johnson on how the block universe argument and its implications would reshape our lives and society for
@IAI_TV
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What big question about our universe keeps you up at night?
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“Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.”
― Oliver Sacks
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Daniel Dennett sat down for a CTT Chat to discuss free will and much more before his new book Just Deserts: Debating Free Will comes out next week. On March 10th, you can watch Part 1 of that conversation exclusively on our YouTube channel.
Subscribe:
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In our latest CTT Chat,
@seanmcarroll
talks about about his terrific new book, "The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion". He covers conservation, the mechanics of space, the nature of time, black holes, gravity, and much more!
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Could quantum physics explain consciousness? Some scientists think so:
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Contrary to belief, monism, a belief of oneness, was once a powerful philosophical tradition in Europe that became all but forgotten after Christianity spread. But quantum physics may be the way to bring it back.
Read now:
By
@HeinrichPaes
for
@IAI_TV
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"No time like the present"? Actually, there is. Shape dynamics in
#physics
suggests that there are countless "present" moments - Via
@NautilusMag
#time
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Noam Chomsky on Linguistic Theories and the Evolution of Language
Watch now:
Chomsky discusses linguistic theories for human sentience and cognition (most notably a Universal Grammar), the evolution of language, and the mystery of consciousness.
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“Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it.”
― Niels Bohr
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This mind-bending film by Dutch director Jan Van IJken is a 6 minute timelapse of a single cell transforming into a full blown organism. If you're a biology fan, drop what you're doing and check this out: Via
@aeonmag
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"Time and space are not conditions of existence, time and space is a model for thinking."
Albert Einstein
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The brilliant Sir Roger Penrose shares his thoughts on the topic of consciousness in this Closer to Truth interview. Watch below:
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"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."
—Leonardo da Vinci
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Must the Universe Contain Consciousness?
Leonard Susskind is the Felix Bloch Professor of Theoretical Physics at Stanford University, and Director of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics.
Watch the interview series:
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“Any sensible physicist wouldn't be perturbed by this,” Roger Penrose adds. “However, I'm not a sensible physicist.” Read more about a new theory of consciousness below:
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Most of us have an “inner voice,” and we tend to assume everybody does, but recent evidence suggests that people vary widely in the extent to which they experience inner speech, from an almost constant patter to a virtual absence of self-talk:
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If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
For Schopenhauer, the answer is no. And he takes the reasoning even further, before there were conscious beings, the universe did not exist.
Here's why from
@IAI_TV
:
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