
1.75m QnA - Triangles, Getting Owned by GodLogic, and Douglas Adams' Puddle
19-12-2025 | 1 u. 2 Min.
Timestamps0:00 - 1,778,795 Q&A0:24 - 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… Emerge?29:26 - If You Clean a Vaccum, Are You a Vaccum Cleaner?35:41 - Is Water Wet?37:26 - How Many Holes Are In a Straw?40:55 - Is a Hot Dog a Sandwich?42:28 - Do You Edit Everything By Yourself?43:23 - What Would It Be Like to Observe a Contradiction?43:33 - Which Philosophical Concepts are Often Misunderstood?50:29 - When I Changed My Mind Mid-Debate01:01:49 - Would You Tour?

#133 Hank Green on God, Science, and Consciousness
07-12-2025 | 2 u. 12 Min.
Hank Green (@hankschannel) is one of YouTube's most beloved creators. One half of vlogbrothers, he is also the co-creator and host of SciShow and Crash Course.Timestamps:0:00 - Where Are All the Aliens?8:08 - What Makes Humans So Special?17:22 - Has the US Lost its Cultural Identity?29:34 - Martin Luther Wrong About God?36:30 - Is the World an Illusion?46:54 - Should We Believe Our Illusions?53:58 - How Objective is Science?59:41 - Does Science Explain Anything?01:11:10 - Could We Explain Cold to an Alien?1:22:03 - The Hard Problem of Consciousness01:27:44 - Will Computers Ever Become Conscious?01:35:58 - Do You Have Two Brains?01:42:30 - Should We Be Worried About TikTok?1:49:08 - Hank’s Video Ideas01:59:39 - What’s it Like Meeting Your Old Heroes?2:05:51 - Being a YouTuber

#132 Vsauce - Does Anything Exist?
30-11-2025 | 1 u. 34 Min.
Michael Stevens is the creator of Vsauce, one of YouTube's most popular channels. Alongside Hannah Fry he hosts the newly-launched podcast The Rest is Science.Timestamps:0:00 - Does Anything Really Exist?10:32 - Is Michael a Mereological Nihilist?19:42 - Are Philosophers Overcomplicating Function Behaviour?25:24 - Do “You” Really Exist?41:57 - Free Will and the Bicameral Mind Theory50:09 - Why the Future Isn’t Changing Like It Used To59:11 - The Scientific Mystery of Torque?01:17:46 - Consciousness

#131 Toby Ord - Will AI Destroy Humanity?
27-11-2025 | 1 u. 1 Min.
Timestamps0:00 - What Existential Risks Does AI Pose?8:57 - How AI Systems Lie to Us26:04 - Why We Should Be Worried About AI33:28 - What Does It Mean for AI System to “Want” Something?43:41 - AI Weapons and Nuclear Warfare48:57 - Where Should We Focus Our Resources?53:35 - What Policies Should We Enact?

#130 Philip Goff - Why I'm a Heretical Christian
16-11-2025 | 1 u. 18 Min.
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.- Timestamps0:00 - Why Philip Became Religious07:13 - Panpsychism and the Fine-Tuning Argument18:46 - Why God’s Power is Limited30:10 - The Problem of Suffering42:53 - Non-Western Religious Positions48:34 - What is the Role of Jesus in This?57:35 - “Why Aren’t You Just a Hindu?”01:02:23 - What is the Point in the Crucifixion?01:09:41 - The Beautiful Uncertainty of Religion



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