These are the Meaning of Life interviews, conducted by Robert Wright. He’s definitely a smart guy, but it’s beyond me why he was chosen to conduct the interviews… the guy’s got no personality and no charisma.
In any case, the interviews cover such various intellectual topics as the anthropic principle, consciousness, moral philosophy, evolutionary biology, death, history, religion, faith and reason, free will, the limits of science, mystical experiences, pantheism, quantum weirdness, science and religion, self-transcendence, god, the problem of evil, meditation, and others.
Edward O. Wilson
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Daniel Dennett
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John Maynard Smith
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Steven Pinker
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Francis Fukuyama
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Brian Swimme
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Andrew Newberg
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Arthur Peacocke
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Freeman Dyson
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Houston Smith
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John Haught
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John Polkinghorne
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Joseph Goldstein
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Karen Armstrong
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Keith Ward
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Lorenzo Albacete
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Omi Safi
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Owen Gingerich
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Robert Pollack
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Sharon Salzberg
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Ursula Goodenough
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