What Is Reality Made of? | Full Debate | Susan Blackmore, John Ellis, Phillip Ball, Hilary Lawson

Watch the full talk at The idea that the world is made of physical stuff alone has been central to scientific progress. Our theories do not account for experience or thought, and the particles of contemporary physics have no dimension so that material seemingly vanishes. Might materialism be a profound mistake? Should we see the world as being at least partly immaterial, or can material stuff alone explain the universe? Hilary Lawson is a post-postmodern philosopher and author of a number of books including Dismantling Truth – Reality in Postmodern times and his latest work Closure. He is the founder of HowTheLightGetsIn and the Director of the Institute of Art and Ideas. John Ellis is CERN physicist and Professor of Theoretical Physics at King’s College London. He has been awarded the Maxwell Medal and the Paul Dirac Prize, coined the term ’theory of everything’ in the 1980s a