Exploring our biggest questions | Dispatches from The Well (Trailer)
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One of humanity’s universal experiences is the search for meaning. How did we get here? What is my life’s purpose? What is consciousness? How will I be remembered?
These are questions that have plagued humanity’s biggest thinkers and continue to challenge us today. Join host Kmele Foster on a new show as we set out around the world to explore how we create meaning from a new lens, weaving together insightful conversations with writers, scientists, religious leaders, philosophers, artists, and more to help us explore life’s biggest (and most exciting) questions.
This is Dispatches, an original show from @The-Well. Featuring: Jane Goodall, Sir Roger Penrose, Terry Crews, Kevin Kelly, Fred Armisen, Reid Hoffman, Sean Carroll, Steve Albini, Melanie Mitchell, Christof Koch, Godfrey Reggio, David Krakauer, Bonnie Fleming, Geoffrey West, Sean Dougherty, Don Lincoln, Swami Sarvapriyananda, Nina Lanza, Chris Kempes, Cormac McCarthy and more.
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@rodrigoalejandrobs
October 14, 2025 at 7:47 pm
We should all pay close attention to what Swami Sarvapriyananda has to say. He is someone who has dedicated most of his life to the answer of the most profound question of Who we are and why are we here. While most of us live our lives while also working on our professions, he has given up everything for the search of Truth. I am looking forward to his interview on the show.
@eternisedDragon7
October 14, 2025 at 7:47 pm
Dear Kmele Foster, you want to talk to all of the smartest people about all the biggest questions, right? I expect that the chance of this comment of mine being not seen, overlooked, or dismissed to be high, but just in case so that afterwards I can at least say I tried to reach out, I would like to propose an application offer for being heard out about my insights on several of these deep questions, because for reasons that lie within my progress from my scientific research about the world, I'm absolutely convinced that I'd be able to greatly contribute in profound ways to the understanding of these questions and the approaching of answers to some of them in a manner that not a single other person that's currently alive could do.
While I'm aware that it may come across as rude or bold for myself to make any requests in this regard, but if I were to be allowed to do so, Kmele, I'd suggest to you to search for the phrase "Ethics on Cosmic Scale" and thoroughly take in the insights I've written down there from there, to then judge based on this content (which I think would be appropriate, suitable for this matter) if I might be worthy to reach out to and hear out on these big questions.
@thesuncollective1475
October 14, 2025 at 7:47 pm
Looks good..more, much more questions than answers
@bapereira4417
October 14, 2025 at 7:47 pm
Will it be on Spotify?
@SloppyGoat
October 14, 2025 at 7:47 pm
Did Bonnie Fleming just say, "You make it up as you go?!" Ummmm, WRONG!! Jesus Christ! Are you trying to give the anti-science idiots something to use against science?! Science is definitely not just making shit up as you go.
Then we have Nina Lanza, claiming that life finds a way. Well, it hasn't found a way anywhere else in the universe, so far, that way know of.
Most likely, life is probably a very rare planet infection. 🙄
@GIGProduction
October 14, 2025 at 7:47 pm
Love this thanks Trace!
@atheistsince1210
October 14, 2025 at 7:47 pm
Read any Jean Paul Sartre and Albert Camus Novel ( The Stranger ) . Sartre’s existential magnum opus On Being and Nothingness . There CANNOT BE human purpose we only evolved as Homo Sapiens from the hominid evolution branch in the anthropological discoveries dating back to Lucy 4M years old German scientist identified a great ape ( we’re apes ) 12M years old extinct of course that may fit into our hominid family tree- the Universe is 13.8 billion years old Earth and Sun about 5 billion and 95 perfect of the observable universe is MISSING Dark Energy and Dark Matter , still a theory but the observable Universe is EXPANDING and ACCELERATING the further away in billions of light years the ancient galaxies are the faster away from us beyond the speed of light they’re accelerating- see Hubbles Constant cosmological formula. All of these unknowns and humans want to imagine there’s “purpose “ in a reality full of pain and suffering as per Prince Sukkarta The Buddha uncovered and gifted to the world in 2600BC in what is now Pakistan.
@bryongalindo
October 14, 2025 at 7:47 pm
Kmele always does good work. This is worth the watch! By the way, the intro with Matt is hilarious 😂
@rudydawgs
October 14, 2025 at 7:47 pm
I wish my mid-life crisis was this productive!
@mironricardo
October 14, 2025 at 7:47 pm
Fred Armestan? Alright I'm in.
@0ptimal
October 14, 2025 at 7:47 pm
Love it.
@talkingtochapri
October 14, 2025 at 7:47 pm
That is midlife crisis 🤭💀
@TheInfoPlace
October 14, 2025 at 7:47 pm
Linked video is private
@mrpearson1230
October 14, 2025 at 7:47 pm
Definitely not a fan of Kmele Foster. He's another one of those people with politically useful positions on cultural issues with no actual real expertise. I like listening to people with real credibility like people on big think with advanced degrees in specific subjects who therefore know what they're talking about. Sometimes, these people have colleagues who disagree with that person's overall analysis, but that person didn't get to that position by what they believed was true. They likely got there based on research and data.
@robertdouglas8895
October 14, 2025 at 7:47 pm
The debris of the universe does not think. It's the effect of thought.
Form follows thought.
Ask and you receive.
Form is the dream of mind.
Dreams are temporary. Mind always is. Death is an illusion associated with temporary bodies.
We intuitively know that we are here to expand the love we are created to be.
We do that by changing our minds from thoughts of fear, sadness and anger to loving thoughts. That process is metanoia, forgiveness.
@alexalke1417
October 14, 2025 at 7:47 pm
Big questions, one huge answer : EVOLUTION.
@brothermine2292
October 14, 2025 at 7:47 pm
The most urgent big question is: What's the best voting method for electing public offices?
Hint: The importance of counting multiple head-to-head majorities is understood by the world's most-used voting method, the Robert's Rules procedure for voting on motions. It eliminates N-1 of the N alternatives by counting N-1 head-to-head majorities.
But all of the world's democracies count at most one majority when electing public offices. That's not only highly prone to spoiling, the winning majority (or plurality) is often a coalition of minorities on different issues, which undermines majority rule, prevents issues from being settled, and empowers extremists by making their supporters' votes needed by the rest of their coalition.
@nurrrrrr
October 14, 2025 at 7:47 pm
We are the universe trying to understand itself
@someguy861
October 14, 2025 at 7:47 pm
It's an ad.
@sophiaisabelle1
October 14, 2025 at 7:47 pm
I have a lot of questions. Seems as though I haven't yet conquered my greatest fears and I'm still on edge, watching by the cliff side, not knowing whether to go for it or decline the possibility and just turn around and pretend as if nothing ever happened.
@iamthanos-ff2178
October 14, 2025 at 7:47 pm
Hi bro
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