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A library of interviews with the world’s biggest thinkers.
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Physicist Paul Davies explores how chemistry first learned to write its own code, and what that reveals about the origin of life.
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Philosopher Joe Folley on why the self is made rather than found, how attention got thinned into productivity, and why Camus’s later work matters most.
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Luke Burgis argues that smartphones have made acedia, the ancient restlessness that pulls us away from the present, socially contagious.
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NYU philosopher Ned Block explains why he thinks today’s AI isn’t conscious, what the hard problem still leaves unanswered, and why biology may matter.
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Philosopher Jack Symes explores the space between devout religion and atheism.
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Blaise Aguera y Arcas breaks down what distinguishes life from mere matter.
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