The Truth Project
The Truth Project is a long-form conversation podcast exploring truth, meaning, and reality in a post-truth age.
We examine philosophy, culture, science, faith, and identity—not to push an ideology, but to challenge assumptions and recover clear thinking. These conversations are unscripted, deep, and often uncomfortable, because clarity usually is.
This podcast is for seekers, skeptics, and anyone who senses that something foundational has been lost—and wants to understand what still holds.
The Truth Project
E3: The Truth Project – What Your Eyes Can't Show You: Perception & Reality
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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"