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Closer To Truth: Exclusive Interviews

We’re excited to share that Closer To Truth has released a series of exclusive interviews from MindFest 2025! These conversations, hosted by Robert Lawrence Kuhn, feature leading thinkers exploring the frontiers of consciousness, AI, and the future of the mind. Watch the interviews on their website and YouTube channel.

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Jonathan Schooler: Hierarchical Consciousness - the Nested Observer Windows Model

In his talk at MindFest, Schooler presented a compelling framework for understanding consciousness as a hierarchy of information-processing modules integrated through nested rhythms. Using the visual metaphor of mosaic prints, he illustrated how consciousness emerges from layered, dynamically fluctuating observer windows.

Robert Lawrence Kuhn: AI Consciousness - in Search of a Fundamental Theory

Kuhn's incredible keynote presentation argued that evaluating AI consciousness without a fundamental theory of consciousness is meaningless. He presented a broad yet rigorous framework, emphasizing that understanding consciousness requires an expansive yet rational approach.

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Tam Hunt: General Resonance Theory (GRT) and Field Theories of Consciousness

In his remarkable keynote, Hunt presented his General Resonance Theory of Consciousness (GRT), which explores how synchronized oscillations—ranging from the quantum level to whole-brain dynamics—give rise to conscious experience.

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Zoltan Istvan: Transhumanism, AI, and the Future of Selfhood

Istvan, a leading voice in transhumanism, discussed how the world of deepfakes runs far deeper than anything most people consider. Also, as AI agents start interacting with each other autonomously from humans, there’s even the possibility they will perform deepfakes on each other, giving no end to the rabbit hole of coming deepfake tech.

Unknowable Minds - Book Salon with Mark Bailey (Author), Susan Schneider, Julia Mossbridge & Kevin Frazier

This special MindFest 2025 Book Salon features Mark Bailey’s Unknowable Minds: Philosophical Insights on AI and Autonomous Weapons , a thought-provoking exploration of the unsettling reality of entrusting our safety to artificial intelligence.

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Additional videos from the Center for the Future Mind can be found on our website and YouTube channel, with more highlights to be featured in the next edition of our newsletter.

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Susan Schneider: "If a Chatbot Tells You It Is Conscious, Should You Believe It?"

In Scientific American, Susan Schneider, director of the Center for the Future Mind, asks: If a chatbot claims it's conscious, should we believe it? Her answer: not so fast. She calls for better tools to assess machine consciousness and stresses the difference between intelligence and sentience.

George Musser: “Just a Phase We’re Going Through”

The physics of magnetism, turned into dance! View this section of a choreography George Musser created for Quantum Jubilee at the American Physical Society meeting, performed by the amazing Le PeTiT CiRqUe®️ Gaulthier under the direction of Nathalie Yves Gaulthier, and introduced by Trity Pourbahrami.

Schechner's WSJ Article

Sam Schechner: "How I Realized AI Was Making Me Stupid"

In a recent Wall Street Journal article, Schechner examines the potential cognitive risks of AI. Drawing on Michael Gerlich’s study on AI Tools in Society, he argues that while these technologies promise to ease everyday burdens, their allure lies in cognitive offloading—which, Schechner warns, may ultimately contribute to mental decline.

Gerlich's Study On AI Tools

Gerald Sim: "Silicon Valley's Human Shields"

Gerald Sim, a member of the Center for the Future Mind, explores how tech companies frame themselves as forces for good to avoid scrutiny. In his latest piece for Flow, he critiques how Silicon Valley firms deflect regulation by casting their platforms as essential to societal progress, using narratives that mask corporate interests.

Michael P. Lynch: On Truth in Politics

In a world of big lies, denialism, and conspiracy theories, democracies are experiencing two interlocked crises: a loss of confidence in democracy itself and the growing sense among many that politics is only about power—not truth. In this book, Michael Patrick Lynch argues that truth not only can, but must, matter in politics.

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Member Blog Posts

"Finding Beauty in Imperfection: A Case for Weak Transhumanism"

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Elan Barenholtz

"Memory Isn't Real"

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"You're an LLM.

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Stephen Wolfram

"What If We Had Bigger Brains? Imagining Minds Beyond Ours"

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