What could life be as we don’t know it? Three transitions in astrobiology. Non-life to life. Life to intelligent life. Intelligent life to technological civilization. For...
video
Episode
26:47
Watch
Explore more philosophical questions that seek insights into the fundamental features of existence including the limits of science, the existence of God, discerning the deep...
playlist
Curated
13 videos
5:48:10
How do Buddhism, Chinese traditions, and Hinduism address Final Things—eschatology—life after death and the ultimate transformation of the world? What are reincarnation...
Episode 5
Season 24
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...
Authors Series, CTT Chat
1:15:43
Sean Carroll talks about about his terrific new book, The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion. He also dives into the importance of equations in popular...
1:12:58
Science explores how the world works. Breakthroughs drive science, challenging conventional wisdom, changing ways of thinking. What are Breakthroughs in science?
Season
5:48:11
Far future 3000? Breakthroughs? Brains make minds? Learn creativity? Parapsychology? Sex therapy? Quantum physics beautiful? Universe end?
Roundtable
14 videos
6:22:20
Creativity is exciting, but also demanding, consuming, frustrating, and addicting. It’s inspiring, but also fickle, erratic, tricky, and risky. Experts gather to...
27:39
Cosmos: Life inevitable? Inflation? Complexity? Consciousness: Alien intelligence? Meaning: Creator God? God all powerful? God fallacies?
5:47:56
Cosmos: Beginning? What is Nothing? Why anything? Consciousness: Personal identity persist? Sleep? Human uniqueness? Meaning: New atheism?
5:47:50
How did the universe begin? What exists? What are the risks of scientific knowledge? Can metaphysics discern God, and what or who is God?
5:48:24
Are there multiple universes? What is extended mind? What causes consciousness? Challenges of analytic theology? If God, what’s evolution?
5:48:20