Dr. Quinn has a Ph.D in Philosophy and Cognitive Science. She has been a neuroscience research faculty member in the Department of Cognitive Science at UCSD for 25 years. She also teaches mindfulness meditation to students, faculty, and friends.

Bernard Carr is a cosmologist and author, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy at Queen Mary University of London. He has a long association with the Society for Psychical Research, serving as its president in 2000-2004. He is interested in the role of consciousness in physics and is working towards a new psycho-physical paradigm linking matter and mind, that accommodates both normal and paranormal mental experiences.

Àlex Gómez-Marín (Barcelona, 1981) is a Spanish physicist turned neuroscientist. He holds a PhD in theoretical physics and a Masters in biophysics from the University of Barcelona. Combining experimental, computational and theoretical neuro-physics, his current research deals with human minds in the real world, concentrating on what he calls “the edges of consciousness.”

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Dean Radin is Chief Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), Associated Distinguished Professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies, and cofounder and chairman of the biotech company, Cognigenics. He earned an MS (electrical engineering) and a PhD (psychology) from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and in 2022 was awarded an Honorary DSc (doctor of science) from the Swami Vivekananda University in Bangalore, India.

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Lisa Feldman Barrett, PhD, is among the top 0.1% most cited scientists in the world for her revolutionary research in psychology and neuroscience. She is a University Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University. She also holds appointments at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, where she is Chief Science Officer for the Center for Law, Brain & Behavior. In addition to the books Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain and How Emotions are Made, Dr. Barrett has published over 275 peer-reviewed, scientific papers appearing in Science, Nature Neuroscience, and other top journals in psychology and cognitive neuroscience, as well as six academic volumes published by Guilford Press.

Learn more about Dr. Barrett and find her books visit https://lisafeldmanbarrett.com

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Iain McGilchrist is a former Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, an associate Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford, a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Consultant Emeritus of the Bethlem and Maudsley Hospital, London, a former research Fellow in Neuroimaging at Johns Hopkins University Medical School, Baltimore. He is committed to the idea that the mind and brain can be understood only by seeing them in the broadest possible context, that of the whole of our physical and spiritual existence, and of the wider human culture in which they arise – the culture which helps to mould, and in turn is moulded by, our minds and brains.

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"What is this thing called love?" - Cole Porter

It's one of life's most mysterious experiences - coveted by all yet, strangely, also a source of immense pain and suffering. Where did love come from and what ultimate purpose does it serve? Rabbi Adam Jacobs discusses many intriguing facets of the idea of love with Oxford anthropologist Anna Machin.

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01:38 What is love?

05:31 Wouldn’t we be better off without love?

09:37 Are people loving less?

13:55 Does love transcend scientific meaning?

19:10 Does the love of God require an intermediary?

24:23 How does religious love compare to other types of love?

27:52 Can a religious love be unhealthy?

30:19 Can there be a false love?

33:50 What do our pets tell us about love?

37:41 Is it possible to fall out of love?

40:34 Can we love someone we dislike?

42:26 Is love a choice?

Philosopher James Tartaglia is a nihilist - he believes that existence has no ultimate purpose. He also believes that there is an immaterial world beyond our own which at least "opens the door" for religious thinking. Can these two ideas really exist side by side?

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Rabbi Adam Jacobs speaks to Dr. Edward Kelly, Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia about the existence of non-material reality. 

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01:03 What do you mean by “tyranny of materialism”?

03:15 How did the Division of Perceptual Studies begin?

06:05 How is parapsychology received at the University of Virginia?

08:35 Why can’t we explain the origin of consciousness?

12:47 How is our understanding of the metaphysical world?

19:51 How do we overcome this wall of resistance?

27:55 Would Carl Sagan be convinced of your research?

32:33 Is there a specific undeniable case of reincarnation?

35:36 Can inorganic matter have consciousness?

39:07 Do subatomic particles exhibit consciousness?

42:16 How do categorical influences challenge materialism?