Roger Walsh, Professor of Psychiatry and Philosophy at UC Irvine, and Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Host of "Closer To Truth", talk consciousness, the search for wisdom, the science of meditation, the mystery of the universe and reality, and the merging of Eastern and Western philosophy.

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What is consciousness, and can we understand it without first asking who is conscious?

In this extended conversation, Acharya Prashant and Robert Lawrence Kuhn bring Western philosophy of mind into dialogue with Vedantic traditions. They explore consciousness and the ego, physicalism and idealism, self-inquiry, karma and reincarnation, animal and artificial consciousness, free choice, and whether anything about human existence lies beyond the physical. Their approaches converge at some points and sharply diverge at others—especially over what, if anything, is fundamental.

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Why do we dream—and do our dreams serve a purpose?

Sleep and dream researcher Robert Stickgold joins Robert Lawrence Kuhn to explore the science of dreaming, from the history and content of dreams to what happens in the brain during sleep. They discuss memory processing, emotional regulation, REM sleep, weak associations, nightmares, lucid dreams, creativity, and whether dreams help us explore possibilities and prepare for the future.

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