What is Causation? | Episode 1511 | Closer To Truth

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Why does one thing ‘cause’ another thing? Is causation fundamental, primitive, real—not reducible to, or explainable by, anything else? Or is causation a human construct, derivative, artificial? At stake is what existence is about. Featuring interviews with Simon Blackburn, Richard Swinburne, Robin Le Poidevin, Huw Price, and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong.

Season 15, Episode 11 - #CloserToTruth

Closer To Truth host Robert Lawrence Kuhn takes viewers on an intriguing global journey into cutting-edge labs, magnificent libraries, hidden gardens, and revered sanctuaries in order to discover state-of-the-art ideas and make them real and relevant.

Closer to Truth presents the world’s greatest thinkers exploring humanity’s deepest questions. Discover fundamental issues of existence. Engage new and diverse ways of thinking. Appreciate intense debates. Share your own opinions. Seek your own answers.

#Causation #Existence

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There isn’t really any other series like this. It is an endlessly thought provoking series. It’s very special.

jackrabbitism

I've said this before on another one of his videos, but regardless of the wide varieties of disagreement on his videos, can we all agree that Kuhn is one hell of a host? The guy is so well read.

davidr

I love the fact that "Closer to Truth" is provided freely on YouTube (and without ADs).. the series brings up great questions that trigger more and more questions!!.. Curiosity is the base of learning, and to have this for free open doors for people to learn and ask more all around the world.
The main problem is how to bring this kind of stuff to more people, a youtuber talking about whatever gets more views than these type of series.

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New to this series and digging it. IMHO it's draw is it's genuine curiosity, and the excitement encircling it. That's really tough to fake. The host, ofc is a perfect conductor for all this.

DrGooseDuckman

closer to truth has become my bedtime story. I go to sleep listening to one of the videos

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If reality tv were replaced by Closer To Truth I don't think the world's politics would look anything like the circus we see today. This sort of programming is such an understated benefit to the species. Very work Dr Kuhn 👍

paxdriver

i don't understand why your videos aren't getting millions of views.

mentuemhet

the only fact this guy is a noble searcher makes me smile for him. great person

maspoetry

Firstly - taken together, Mr Kuhn, these many chapters of Closer to the Truth constitute one of the most profound philosophical explorations of our time (i actually can't think of a comparable work in print of this scope.) In pushing into some of the deepest questions of existence - you tease out and weave together connections across disciplines, across world views, across perspectives - and all the time simply exposing the competing threads to allow us to see how they lie. You respect those you interview, and you respect your listeners. You meet with great minds and ask many of the questions I want to ask, and so many more I wouldn't have thought to ask. (Secondly - am I the only one who is, of course, at once impressed by these great minds - but then equally surprised at how many demonstrate an underlying almost emotive commitment to their own presuppositions about reality by sometimes presenting as sureties the More Speculative Ideas (eg, multiverse, backwards causation) alongside those Things More Verified as if they are the same?

TheLlywelyn

I love this series but the more episodes I watch the more I realize that we actually know very little. There are very few absolute truths if any, and I wouldn't be surprised if in 300+ years people look back at our time and are amazed at what we believed and thought was true.

SpittinSquirell

Extraordinary content! This is what Youtube need.

gustavodeoliveira

All of my life I have been concerned with the meaning of things, identifying them, how things work and why, and entity relationships, etc. This made me feel like I wasn't as smart as other people because I never see others bothered by not knowing enough. I eventually learned that most people do not like to think and would rather fake it till they make it. I guess I wasn't really behind, I was just more curious and honest about my level of understanding in the interest of welcoming more understanding.

davidanthony

In 2001, I had a very real motor cycle accident. It resulted in some permanent damage to my right leg. Since then I am reminded every minute of my life that causation is very real indeed and not just a mental construct.

reason

I envy your life, mister Kuhn. Wish i could engage in conservations with so many interesting persons from all areas.

domcasmurro

It's a shame the program didn't interview statisticians who have puzzled over the concept of causation, determinism, and probability for more than 100 years.

everVillas