Featured An Invitation to Become a Closer To Truth Member An invitation to become a member from Robert Lawrence Kuhn, host and creator of Closer To Truth
Perspective Five Questions with Greg Epstein Greg M. Epstein—Humanist chaplain at MIT and Harvard University—spoke to Closer To Truth about technology, religion, and the future of humanity.
Perspective Five Questions with David Papineau Learn about philosopher David Papineau's favorite topics in science, his biggest influence, his most controversial opinion, and more.
Book Excerpt Gary Marcus: Taming Silicon Valley Read of excerpt of "Taming Silicon Valley" by cognitive scientist Gary Marcus about Big Tech, AI, and more.
Perspective Five Questions with Martin Nowak Closer To Truth sat down with the mathematician and biologist Martin Nowak to discuss the inspiration behind his book, his favorite works of art, and more.
Book Excerpt Martin Nowak: Beyond Read an excerpt from Martin Nowak's book, "Beyond", a fusion of science, philosophy, meditative prayer, love story, and mystery.
Perspective The Dangerous Illusion of AI Consciousness AI expert and DeepMind contributor Shannon Vallor explores OpenAI's latest GPT-4o model, based on the ideas of her new book, "The AI Mirror".
Perspective Consciousness Came Before Life Most scientists believe that consciousness came after life, as a product of evolution. But astrobiologist Stuart Hameroff argues that consciousness may have been what made evolution and life possible in the first place.
Perspective New Theory of Gravity Solves Accelerating Universe Theoretical physicist Claudia de Rham shares her thoughts on why we shouldn't rely on dark energy and offers a new theory of gravity.
Perspective A Landscape of Consciousness: Toward a taxonomy of explanations and implications Read Closer To Truth host Robert Lawrence Kuhn's recently released article that covers the field consciousness studies in its totality.
Perspective Five Questions with Ferris Jabr In celebration of the publication of his book, "Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life", we spoke to author Ferris Jabr about the future of humanity, the meaning of life, and much more.
Perspective Five Questions with Brian Swimme Evolutionary cosmologist Brian Swimme sat down with us this week to discuss the phenomenon of Déjà vu, the meaning of life, and the connection between the head and the heart.
