A taxonomy of consciousness explanations. Credit: Robert Lawrence Kuhn (2024). Created by Robert Lawrence Kuhn and Alex Gomez-Marin. A landscape of consciousness. Note: Categories 1–10 in the Figures ...

“Out of meat, how do you get thought? That’s the grandest question.” So said philosopher Patricia Churchland to Robert Lawrence Kuhn, the producer and host of the acclaimed PBS program, Closer to ...

FQxI and Closer To Truth's Robert Lawrence Kuhn (middle) interviews cosmologists Alan Guth (left) and Andrei Linde (right) during an FQxI meeting.

Larry speaks with Dr. Robert Lawrence Kuhn, author of the article Why This Universe: Toward a Taxonomy of Possible Explanations from the most recent issue of Skeptic magazine, about the many possible ...

FQxI President Anthony Aguirre (left) and Closer To Truth's Robert Lawrence Kuhn (right) discuss consciousness at FQxI's 5th International Conference in Banff, Canada.

Could artificial intelligence (AI) become conscious? What used to be a philosophical “thought experiment” is now a real-world conundrum. AI’s explosive development, especially the Large Language ...

This blog was co-authored with Professor John Vervaeke*. Robert Lawrence Kuhn, the executive producer of the excellent series on life, cosmos, and consciousness called Closer to Truth, recently ...

The American public intellectual and creator of the television series Closer to Truth, Robert Lawrence Kuhn has written perhaps the most comprehensive article on the landscape of theories of ...