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For early, ad-free access to videos, and to support the channel, subscribe to my Substack: ⁠ https://www.alexoconnor.com⁠ . TIMESTAMPS (0:00) 1,778,795 Q&A (0:24) How Are You? (5:12) If You Could Choose Your Date of Birth, When Would It Be? (9:36) Survival Tips From Bear Grylls? (10:21) How Do You Remember so Much Stuff? (15:24) What is Your Dream Podcast? (17:01) Doesn’t Consciousness Just… E...

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For early, ad-free access to videos, and to support the channel, subscribe to my Substack: ⁠ https://www.alexoconnor.com⁠ . Toby Ord is an Australian philosopher. In 2009 he founded Giving What We Can, an international society whose members pledge to donate at least 10% of their income to effective charities, and is a key figure in the effective altruism movement, which promotes using reason and e...

For early, ad-free access to videos, and to support the channel, subscribe to my Substack: ⁠ https://www.alexoconnor.com⁠ . Philip Goff is a British author, panpsychist philosopher, and professor at Durham University whose research focuses on philosophy of mind and consciousness. Specifically, how consciousness can be part of the scientific worldview. Buy Philip's books here . Timestamps (0:00...

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Bernardo Kastrup is a Dutch philosopher and computer scientist recognised for his contributions to consciousness studies, notably through his formulation of analytic idealism—a variant of metaphysical idealism rooted in the analytic tradition. Buy his books here . Timestamps: 0:00 - What is the World Really Made Of? 7:11 - Qualities vs Quantities 9:45 - Can Materialism Explain Anything? 25:06 - Is...

Bear Grylls is a British adventurer, writer, television presenter and former SAS trooper who is also a survival expert. Widely known for his television series Man vs. Wild, he was also appointed as The Scout Association’s youngest-ever Chief Scout of the United Kingdom and Overseas Territories at the age of 35. His new book, The Greatest Story Ever Told , is a retelling of the life of Jesus throug...

Exclusive NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/withinreason. Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee. Andrew Mark Henry is a scholar of religious studies. His research focus is early Christianity and late Roman religion. He earned his PhD at Boston University. His YouTube channel is "Religion for Breakfast", find it here . Timestamps: 0:00 - Was Jesus a Magician? 3:35 - The...

Dr. Qureshi-Hurst is a Philosopher of Religion and Science at the University of Cambridge. Her work focuses on the relationship between physics—and time in particular—and theology. Her forthcoming book,  Decoding the Cosmos: God, Physics, and the Search for Deeper Explanation , explores this relationship in depth. Improve your focus with Brain FM with 30 days free: https://www.brain.fm/withinreaso...

Ben Thomas is @Sisyphus55 , a YouTuber creating videos about philosophy, existentialism, nihilism, absurdism, and meaning. His new book, So You're Having an Existential Crisis: a Roadmap for Lost Souls , is available now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Candida Moss is a historian of Christianity and author of The Myth of Persecution: How Early Christians Invented a Story of Martyrdom . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Get Huel today with this exclusive offer for New Customers of 15% OFF with code alexoconnor at https://huel.com/alexoconnor (Minimum $75 purchase). Robert Greene is an American author of books on strategy, power, and seduction. He has written seven international bestsellers, including The 48 Laws of Power. He is working on a book about the concept of the sublime, and speaks today about its relatio...

John Cottingham (born 1943) is an English philosopher. The focus of his research has been early-modern philosophy (especially Descartes ), the philosophy of religion and moral philosophy. He is a Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Reading, Professorial Research Fellow at Heythrop College, University of London, and Honorary Fellow of St John's College, Oxford. He is also a curren...

Brant Pitre is an American New Testament scholar and Distinguished Research Professor of Scripture at the Augustine Institute. He has written extensively on the historical Jesus, the Virgin Mary, Paul the Apostle, the origin of the Eucharist, and the canonical Gospels. His book, Jesus and Divine Christology , is available here . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jim Al-Khalili is an Iraqi-British theoretical physicist and science populariser. He is professor of theoretical physics and chair in the public engagement in science at the University of Surrey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/withinreason Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee Joe Folley runs the YouTube channel Unsolicited Advice . He graduated from Cambridge University in 202with an MPhil in Philosophy, specialising in logic. TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 - What is Logic? 5:04 - Aristotelian vs Stoic Logic 12:47 - How Logic Provides Clarity 18:42 Ambiguities in Logical...

Dan McClellan is an American biblical scholar and author of The Bible Says So: What We Get Right (and Wrong) About Scripture’s Most Controversial Issues . Timestamps: 0:00 Why Does God Say “We”? 14:36 Does God Create the Universe From Nothing? 28:43 Is This Explained By The Trinity? 34:32 Is There Only One God? 47:39 Fake Idols or Gods? 1:02:50 How English Translations Mislead Us Into Monotheism 0...

Peter Godfrey-Smith is an Australian philosopher of science and writer, who is currently Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney. Buy his books here . Timestamps: 0:00 How Many Times Has the Brain Independently Evolved? 4:36 What is a Nervous System? 7:12 The Differences Between the Human and Animal Brains 13:40 What Does an Octopus Brain Look Like? 25:21 What is...

Niayesh Afshordi is a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Waterloo. Phil Halper is a science communicator and YouTuber. Together, they have authored a book called " Battle of the Big Bang: The New Tales of Our Cosmic Origins ", an overview of the state of modern cosmology on the nature of the big bang. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adcho...

Simon Blackburn is well-known both as a writer of popular philosophy introductions (like Think ), and also a significant figure in non-cognitivist meta-ethics, having invented the term “quasi-realism” to describe his moral philosophy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sabine Hossenfelder is a German theoretical physicist, author, science communicator, and YouTuber. She is the author of Existential Physics: A Scientist’s Guide to Life’s Biggest Questions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rick Alan Ross is an American deprogrammer, cult specialist, and founder and executive director of the non-profit Cult Education Institute. Frequently appearing in the news and other media, discussing groups some consider cults. Ross has intervened in more than 500 deprogramming cases in various countries. (Wikipedia) Get Rick's book, "Cults Inside Out: How People Get In and Can Get Out" here . Le...

Helen Bond is Professor of Christian Origins at the New College, University of Edinburgh, and former head of the School of Divinity there. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In 2023, she co-authored a book with Joan Taylor called Women Remembered: Jesus’ Female Disciples . Watch the documentary version here . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices