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You will have the opportunity to hear some of these speakers in person, including Roger Penrose, Sabine Hossenfelder and Tariq Ali.
Over the years of our London festival, we have welcomed guests from the forefront and the fringes of leading debates in physics, philosophy and politics. Dive into this compilation of their different ideas – more often than not bold, unapologetic and original.
Who is your favourite speaker? Does anyone stand out particularly? What other ideas should have space?
00:00 Introduction
02:06 POLITICS: Who has power over us? Should we accept the current hegemony? | Steven Pinker, Tariq Ali, Rory Stewart, Shoshana Zuboff
16:50 PHYSICS: Must we accept paradoxes in physics? Should we keep relying on the standard theories? | Avshalom Elitzur, Sean Carroll, Sabine Hossenfelder
26:43 PHILOSOPHY: Are we lost in metaphysics? Do we need beauty? How can we navigate this life, ethically, spiritually? | John Vervaeke, Hilary Lawson, Patricia Churchland, Galen Strawson, Roger Penrose
39:38 AND MUCH MORE: At the world’s only music and philosophy festival | Olivia Lane, Rupert Sheldrake
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Debates and talks featured:
The fires of progress (London, 2018)
Life and philosophy of Rory Stewart (London, 2023)
Metropolis untamed (London, 2019)
The trouble with time (London, 2023)
The poetry of the universe (London, 2018)
Gravity and the universe (London, 2023)
The shadow of spirituality (London, 2023)
The return of metaphysics (London, 2021)
Truth and beauty (London, 2018)
Trash, trends and the transcendent (London, 2021)
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