Within Reason

Annaka Harris is an American writer. Her work touches on neuroscience, meditation, philosophy of mind and consciousness. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind [https://amzn.to/4jAqCUQ]. Get Annaka Harris’ documentary Lights On here [https://annakaharris.com/lights-on/].

Rhett McLaughlin is a comedian best known for creating the internet’s most-watched daily talk show, Good Mythical Morning [https://studio.youtube.com/channel/UC4PooiX37Pld1T8J5SYT-SQ] along side Link Neal; their award-winning weekly podcast The pair also host a weekly podcast, Ear Biscuits [https://studio.youtube.com/channel/UC8nhd-qEBMmFs-DkhBaQwww]; and the instant #1 New York Times bestseller Rhett & Link’s Book of Mythicality.

David Deutsch is a British physicist at the University of Oxford, often described as the "father of quantum computing". He is a visiting professor in the Department of Atomic and Laser Physics at the Centre for Quantum Computation in the Clarendon Laboratory of the University of Oxford. (Wikipedia)

Brian Greene is a professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University, director of its centre for theoretical physics, and the chairman of the World Science Festival. He is best known for his work on string theory, especially in his book “The Elegant Universe [https://amzn.to/43ELeWX]”, which turns 25 this year.

For episode 100 of Within Reason, I'm joined by Joe Folley, from the YouTube Channel "Unsolicited Advice" [https://www.youtube.com/@unsolicitedadvice9198], to tackle a completely arbitrary and ridiculous tournament of thinkers, each of whom are to some degree relevant to the show. Joe graduated from Cambridge University with an MPhil in Philosophy, specialising in logic, in 2023.