How can so many numbers of nature—the constants and relationships of physics—be so spot-on perfect for humans to exist? Coincidence and luck seem wildly unlikely. This...
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Free will seems obvious, simple, common; but it’s subtle, profound, maddening, Free will probes the deep nature of human existence. But big questions have big problems.
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Episode 09
Season 11
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Sexual questions abound. What is “normal” sexual behavior vs. multiple variations? How to appreciate LGBTQ+ issues? What can be learned from sex in animal models that is...
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What do common people think about free will, and why should it matter what they think anyway? Do common people think they have free will? Can they be persuaded otherwise? How...
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Can we know God? If so, how? We can believe in God, but is such belief justified? How to apply the principles of epistemology to knowledge of God and belief in God? What...
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Free will seems obvious, simple, common; but it’s subtle, profound, maddening. Free will probes the deep nature of human existence. But big questions have big problems....
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The search for meaning and purpose is humanity’s never-ending quest. It is said that “How Questions” belong to the realm of science, but “Why...
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How many different kinds of ‘things’ are there? What are the fewest number of things that can characterize existence and do so exhaustively? In other words, what...
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What remarkable discoveries are being made in cosmology! Cosmologists now develop credible theories about the beginning and end of our universe and theory-based speculations...
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Spirituality requires consciousness because we need to be aware, and to be self-aware, in order to apprehend spirituality of any kind. But is there more to the relationship?...
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As far as we know, brains are the most highly organized matter in the universe. How they make their magic is just astonishing.
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Can art inform the classic mind-body problem? While the relationship between mental activity and physical brain continues to baffle, can the existence and process of art...
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