Closer to Truth

Season 16

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Closer To Truth is a public television series featuring scientists, philosophers, theologians and scholars exploring the deepest questions of Cosmos, Consciousness and Meaning-the structure of the universe, the nature of the mind and the search for ultimate reality.

Where to Watch Season 16

13 Episodes

  • When Brains Go Bad?
    E1
    When Brains Go Bad?How normal brains work; effects of brain damage.
  • What Is the Doomsday Argument?
    E2
    What Is the Doomsday Argument?Whether humankind has underestimated the risks of global catastrophe and human extinction.
  • How Could God Make Miracles?
    E3
    How Could God Make Miracles?If there is a God, how does God make miracles happen; what miracles imply about how God relates to the world.
  • How Do Consciousness and Language Relate?
    E4
    How Do Consciousness and Language Relate?Consciousness, inner experience and language; whether consciousness causes language or vice versa.
  • Can God and Science Mix?
    E5
    Can God and Science Mix?Science and religion.
  • Religious Faith: Rational or Rationalization?
    E6
    Religious Faith: Rational or Rationalization?Whether God or human psychology generates faith.
  • Can Brain Alone Explain Consciousness?
    E7
    Can Brain Alone Explain Consciousness?Whether physical facts about the brain account for mental experiences of the mind.
  • Can Enlarged Materialism Explain Consciousness?
    E8
    Can Enlarged Materialism Explain Consciousness?Whether there is more to materialism than the laws of physics.
  • Does Consciousness Defeat Materialism?
    E9
    Does Consciousness Defeat Materialism?Whether anything exists beyond the physical world.
  • Fallacies in Arguing for God?
    E10
    Fallacies in Arguing for God?Mistakes made by those who argue the existence of God.
  • What Is Philosophy of Science?
    E11
    What Is Philosophy of Science?The essence of science.
  • Does Philosophy Help Science?
    E12
    Does Philosophy Help Science?Whether there are limits and boundaries to science.
  • Marvin Minsky: Like No Other
    E13
    Marvin Minsky: Like No OtherCognitive scientist Marvin Minsky's analysis of brains, minds, artificial intelligence, religion and God.

 

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