The Mystery of Existence | Episode 913 | Closer To Truth

Why do we exist? Call all-that-exists "something." Why is there "something" rather than "nothing"? The question haunts me. Why is there anything at all? Featuring interviews with Michio Kaku, Bede Rundle, John Leslie, Richard Swinburne, and Hubert Dreyfus.

Season 9, Episode 13 - #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.

#Ontology #Existence

[deepaktripathi]

How fortunate we are that we can watch these things on YouTube.
This channel has become my favorite YouTube channel.

[richardvannoy]

To be haunted by fundamental questions is a beautiful thing.

[Greentunic]

I cant get enough of this series. It's the best.

[manafro]

That plot twist at the end was something surprising rather than nothing at all. :)

[sy]

My life journey has been a puzzling one. I learned this language not that long ago and fell in love with it and it has allowed me to enjoy shows like this one, I cannot get enough of this show

[NocturnalBeing]

Got acquainted with this enigma at age 7 and it's been haunting me ever since. I think the day you die is the ultimate liberation.

[nertoni]

I really enjoy your great documentaries that try to tackle mind bending problems. I have a feeling that the answer of the question of why is there "something" rather than "nothing" lies in the deeper understanding of the concept of infinity!

[Penrose]

Robert, this is quite cleary the highest yield content I've ever observed on this platform. Bravo

[dimitriospolymeros]

I had some sort of an epiphany when I was 5 years old, I remember it very vividly, when I asked myself this exact question, and it's been torturing me ever since. I 'm happy to find someone else who has realised that this is the most important question that anyone can ask. Great video.

[linusn]

I run a number of companies based in Hong Kong and one of my great pleasures is accompanying Mr. Kuhn on his journey. The gift of knowledge and a better understanding of ourselves and the nature of our existence. I and many others are in his debt.

[theaviary]

This series is pure 🔥. Keep them coming. I can't get enough.

[ili]

This episode has the best introduction of them
all so far “...I’m not deluded, just obsessed” ha!

[Okla_Soft]

Love Kuhns videos because he has a childlike curiosity to understand the deepest questions in physics and philosophy, in other words: the deepest questions that humanity can pose...

[nicktraynor]

“Because something does exist, there must be something that is self-existing; in that its essence is its existence.”

That is a strikingly profound statement.

[MichaelKorolov]

This question has a special meaning. Its own sense and feeling. There's no use to speculate about it in terms of preset life notions, you loose the question - it cannot be truly expressed in other words, decomposed to other concepts. The best thing I could do to not lose it - stop reasoning around it, keep the feeling, follow it as it is and see where it arise, see what you mean and feel by asking it. Feeling goes first, only then you can communicate it to your companion if he feels it too.

[jeantetreault]

Sir Robert Laurence Kuhn is not only intriguing, eloquent and mysterious, but he’s also very fascinating and mystical too. I just simply like his modern and contemporary style. He knows exactly how to define things and he knows exactly how to ask the right kind of questions, during his one on one interviews, with each and every one of his guests. Thank you for this magnificent presentation! Johnny, Montréal, Canada!

[mckeestudio]

Please pardon my gushing, but this has got to be the best introduction to an episode ever. The poignant narrative and epic soundtrack are perfect. Thanks for this series.

[saiedkoosha]

Among all, Michio was the only one who didn’t answer the question at all, as if he didn’t hear it. He said things that are interesting but totally irrelevant to the question. Intellectual honesty calls for a simple “I don’t know” in situations like this.

Robert ends the episode brilliantly by confessing he hasn’t moved an inch closer to truth on this question. And who has?

[philjamieson]

I think that people like this, asking questions like that, are always worth listening to. Thanks for putting this on here.

[richardvannoy]

I like the answer that there is “something” that is self existing. And that self existing “thing” was the ignition to start everything else.