Why Anything at All? | Episode 1213 | Closer To Truth

Why are we here? Why is there a world, a cosmos, something-instead of absolutely nothing at all? Of all the big questions, this is the biggest. Why? What can we learn from "nothing"? Featuring interviews with John Leslie, Bede Rundle, Max Tegmark, Simon Blackburn, Quentin Smith, Victor Stenger, Peter van Inwagen, John Polkinghorne, Richard Swinburne, and Paul Davies.

Season 12, 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.

#Existence #Reality

[Hevysmoker]

I always count the seconds before Robert inevitably takes a slow walk down steps or along a picturesque pathway whilst looking around meaningfully🤣 love it!

[kameelffarag]

Robert your series are amazing and highly educational, and what amazes me is that less than a million follow these and more than a million follow garbage. Thank you.

[doomedtolinger]

Such an excellent series! Outstanding questions and cosmically interesting answers...

[andreas.]

Its also my favourite question and as Robert I am fascinated by it again and again. Its just mind- blowing! This channel is definitely the best Ive ever seen and I feel sad that not more people are interested in the big questions. It should be number one channel for its profundity!

[LeMotMista]

Closer to Truth has just GOT to be among the top five YouTube channels for the value its content offers our lives. And I couldn't name with any certainty the other four… Thank you RLK for all that you do bringing the public this monumental resource.

[rabeeet]

Definitely my favourite channel. Brilliant content!

[andreas.]

Watched this episode several times.. it remains so impressing. My absolute favourite topic <3

[Bob_Oxnard-spgr]

I love these inquiries and the way Robert goes about exploring them.

[arkaazizul]

Man!!
Robert knows how to end things!!
Amazing!!
And the theme music 🎶!!

[frank]

My comfort comes from the notion that the universe is, or was created, to know more about itself. This is not under my authorship, but found in the Upanishads. For me, I find comfort with this . It also suggests that I too am an agent of this discovery, and provide some assistance to this notion.
I would hope that Closer to Truth would spend some time with those people of the East that have pondered much of the subject matter that is brought to this channel. It would be an excellent addition to compare and contrast the knowledge. Many would first ask " Who is asking this question ? ". They take great interest in the person/apparatus that is pondering these 'Closer to Truth" Ideas, as the perceiver/subject cannot be disconnected from the reality of the answer.... ( I found this to be true )

[shazanali]

Been watching this since 2004 just awesome finally we had uploads, uploads that will last into the future

[larssoholt]

Observation and the ability to observe pops up again and again. Observation requires conciousness... Wonderfully puzzling!!!

[Kiubier]

I believe that if it existed and we had a direct line to the all knowing ultimate consciousness, god or the universe itself "it" wouldn't be able to tell us why there's anything at all. "It" wouldn't know.

Some of these answers seem to not align yet there's truth in every single one of them. However it will always be up to speculation and we will never be able to find a definitive answer to the question.

Thank you for devoting your life to the ultimate question and as much as I believe we'll never get to the truth, thanks to you, John Leslie and the other brilliant minds you've invited in your show we're closer to it. I look forward to reading your book and indulging in this wild goose chase further.

[arkaazizul]

This channel is the best ever!!
Period!

[willnzsurf]

Best. Closer To Truth. Ever. 🌴😎💯
Thanks.!!

[guyfromnj]

What a great series of videos. Great conversations. Enlightening even.

[schordese]

I love this segment, but no one should have to endure the amount of commercials interrupting it. I'd rather watch...nothing.

[haimbenavraham]

My favorite question. " why should there Be anything at all?". And yet, there is all this, magnificence, beauty, awesomeness, glory, expansion and celebration. Or are we so dumb, not to recognize it.

[hutchboy]

You make excellent documentary's, I love them so interesting and well made

[cole]

23:25 Again, the end is always a good bookmark!