What does it mean to truly see something?
In Episode 3, Alex Kosley and Warren Edick walk through one of the most disorienting ideas in all of philosophy — that the world you perceive is not the world as it actually is. It's a picture painted by five filters. And you can never step in front of them.
From there the conversation takes a sharp turn: if intelligence can't tell us what's real, can it tell us what's good? Warren makes the case that intelligence is a means to an end — and that the end, whether we admit it or not, is always a value judgment. That's where physics runs out of answers. And that's where wisdom begins.
Topics covered:
The valley thought experiment and naive realism
The phenomenal world — why perception is not reality
Why physics doesn't have a monopoly on what's real
Intelligence vs. goodness — and what AI gets wrong
The horizontal vs. the vertical: technology, wisdom, and what we're actually after
Free will and the volitional body
Plato's tripartite soul and what it means to "stand well"

In Episode 2 of The Truth Project, Alex Kosley and Warren Edick continue their conversation by examining a powerful idea that has shaped modern thinking: uncertainty.

Quantum physics revealed that at the smallest levels of reality there is indeterminacy. But over time, many thinkers took that idea and extended it far beyond where it belongs — suggesting that if uncertainty exists at the microscopic level, then nothing can truly be known at all.

Is that conclusion justified?

In this episode we explore:

• Aristotle’s idea of the unmoved mover
• The origins of the concept of the atom
• The difference between the micro, macro, and the world we actually live in
• How quantum uncertainty has been misapplied to everyday reality
• Why the belief that “nothing can be known” is ultimately self-contradictory

These conversations are part of a larger journey exploring truth, reality, philosophy, science, and the human condition.

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We live in a world with more information than ever — and less clarity than ever before.

In this first episode of The Truth Project, Alex Kosley and Warren Edick begin a thoughtful conversation about truth, confusion, and meaning in modern life. Rather than offering slogans or quick answers, they slow things down and explore why questions of truth still matter in everyday experience — from how we reason, to how we trust, to how we live.

This episode sets the tone for the series: honest dialogue, careful thinking, and a shared commitment to take truth seriously without turning it into a weapon.