HowtheLightGetsIn Hay 2024: Featured Speakers

Closer To Truth is excited to partner with HowtheLightGetsIn for another year of their annual Hay festival. This playlist features speakers who will appear at Hay between May 24-27, 2024 like Roger Penrose, Donald Hoffman, Daniel Dennett, and many more.

Learn more about the festival—plus get 20% off your tickets with promo code CTT24—here.

Mathematics describes the real world of atoms and acorns, stars and stairs, with remarkable precision. So is mathematics invented by humans just like chisels and hammers and...

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Roger Penrose

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Free will is a problem. If it seems obvious that you are perfectly free to choose and decide, then it seems perfectly clear that you do not understand the problem. Free will...

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Daniel Dennett

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7:59

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Consciousness is what we can know best and explain least. It is the inner subjective experience of what it feels like to see red or smell garlic or hear Beethoven....

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Donald Hoffman

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10:32

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Free will has traditionally been a problem in philosophy. Recently, the battleground of free will has shifted to neuroscience. Now some claim that to solve the problem of...

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Scott Aaronson

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8:24

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Are quantum events required for consciousness in a very special sense, far beyond the general sense that quantum events are part of all physical systems? What would it take...

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Stuart Hameroff

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9:34

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Some scientists take time travel seriously. Should you? What does time travel reveal about the nature of space and time? What about the laws of physics under extreme...

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Tim Maudlin

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9:17

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That the universe began seems astonishing. What brought it about? What forces were involved? How did the laws of nature generate the vast expanse of billions of galaxies of...

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Roger Penrose

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17:09

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Philosopher and cognitive scientist Daniel Dennett discusses his new memoir, I’ve Been Thinking, about the dominant themes of twentieth-century philosophy and cognitive...

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Daniel Dennett on the Mysteries of the Mind

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1:21:35

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Some claim consciousness, our inner awareness, is part of a ‘cosmic consciousness’. Not only is consciousness the deepest reality, but also it brought into...

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Donald Hoffman

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7:59

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Quantum theory is very strange. No act is wholly sure. Everything works by probabilities, described by a wave function. But what is a wavefunction? One theory is that every...

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Scott Aaronson

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9:50

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What mistakes are made in the fine-tuning debate? Whether errors of fact, opinion, logic, or extrapolation, where are the pitfalls in fine-tuning? Is there really...

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Tim Maudlin

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8:06

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