What missing brains teach us about consciousness | Ideas For Our Time

Will humans still exist in an AI-powered future? | Yampolskiy, Livingston, Fuller

Is immigration causing more issues than it solves? | Markovits, Kaufmann, Debbonaire

Thought doesn't just happen in the brain | Barbara Tversky

The origins of the universe | Roger Penrose and Brian Cox

The danger of outsourcing memory to machines | Iain McGilchrist, Oliver Hardt, Catherine Loveday

Why green technology will not save us from ourselves | Sheila Jasanoff, Erik Swyngedouw, Paul Stein

Why do people see elves when they take DMT? | Rupert Sheldrake

When will physics discover new particles? | Sabine Hossenfelder vs Gavin Salam

How optical illusions can show if AI is conscious | Roman Yampolskiy

The power of shame in a post-truth world | Ken Roth, ex-director of Human Rights Watch

If free will is an illusion, how do we punish people? | Robert Sapolsky, Paul Bloom, Lucy Allais

Are democracies losing the economic war? | Curtis Yarvin, Aaron Bastani, Hélène Landemore

How liberals monetized trauma | Catherine Liu on Marx, Trump, and identity politics

Why the Right swapped economics for culture wars | Martin Wolf

Socrates, Charles Darwin, and the addiction to narratives | Jess Frazier, Steve Fuller, Barry Smith

Should everyone be treated equally? | Alain de Botton, Alex O'Connor, Seyla Benhabib, Tommy Curry

What you didn't know about the moon landing | Barry C. Smith

"We can't go on like this" | Jeremy Corbyn on privatisation

Everything you thought you knew about mental health is wrong | Joanna Moncrieff

Can a glass of water be a hamster? | Steven Pinker clashes with Hilary Lawson

Why meritocracy is fundamentally flawed | Daniel Markovits

Evolution vs Culture | Simon Baron-Cohen, Subrena Smith, Keith Frankish

The idea that could fix the economy overnight | Guy Standing on UBI

We've misunderstood the physics of our universe | Sabine Hossenfelder, Ivette Fuentes, James Ladyman

Woke vs work: The Left's identity crisis | Maurice Glasman, Bhaskar Sunkara, Pam Cox

Why there's no such thing as knowledge | Slavoj Žižek and Hilary Lawson

Why string theory doesn't make any sense | Roger Penrose, Claudia de Rham, Avshalom Elitzur

What the war in Iran means for the rest of the world | Glenn Greenwald, Seyla Benhabib, Sam Kiley

Why our understanding of quantum physics is flawed | Jacob Barandes

Why billionaires are trying to divide us | Gary Stevenson and Abby Innes Q&A

Trump's Iran attacks are business as usual for Washington | Glenn Greenwald

How does consciousness actually work? | Alex O'Connor, Karl Friston, Susan Schneider, Jan Westerhoff

We've never had true democracy | Ken Roth, Hélène Landemore, James Bacchus

Why the truth no longer matters | Alenka Zupančič

Can computers understand? | Roger Penrose, Sabrina Pasterski, Max Tegmark

What near-death experiences reveal about consciousness | Àlex Gómez-Marín

How the brain constructs reality | Karl Friston on consciousness and neuroscience

Black holes, quantum mechanics, and the next great discovery | Raphael Bousso

How to fight back against Big Tech and the new oligarchs | Yanis Varoufakis Q&A

It's time we killed reality | Slavoj Žižek and Hilary Lawson on Truth, Trump, and Nazis

Why we never learn from history | John Gray on the illusion of progress

The problem with American-style freedom | Yaron Brook, Daniel Markovits, Elizabeth Anderson

The universe doesn't have an explanation | Sabine Hossenfelder, Ivette Fuentes, James Ladyman

How the far right is manipulating the public | Jeremy Corbyn

Why nationalism won't go away | Alain de Botton, Alex O'Connor, Tommy Curry, Seyla Benhabib

How they ruined philosophy | Babich, Schönbaumsfeld, Schuringa

What neuroscience reveals about free will and psychopaths | Sam Harris, Roger Penrose, Sophie Scott

Alternative theories for the start of the universe | Phil Halper

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The missing link between time and consciousness | Rupert Sheldrake, Timothy Morton, Joanna Kavenna

"This is folly" | Exclusive interview with Nicola Sturgeon, former First Minister of Scotland

The "hard problem of consciousness" is actually easy | Slavoj Žižek, Carlo Rovelli, Alenka Zupančič

There's no such thing as a Selfish Gene | Denis Noble on Dawkins' mistake

The last time politicians talked like Trump | David Livingstone Smith

Why tech billionaires are really investing in AI | Gómez-Marín, Schneider, Goldstein, Istvan

Could ChatGPT be conscious? | Roger Penrose, Sabrina Gonzalez, Max Tegmark

Free will is scientifically impossible | Robert Sapolsky, Paul Bloom, and Lucy Allais

We don't even know what genes are | Philip Ball on biology's biggest mistake

Does OnlyFans empower or exploit women? | Catherine Hakim, Minna Salami, Farha Khalidi