How can the three pounds of wet tissue inside our skulls create and appreciate the grandeur and psychic power of music? Musical feel, beauty and emotion seem so radically...
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In a ‘billiard-ball world’ of Newtonian science, causation was obvious—things had to touch each other in space and a cause always had to precede an effect. But...
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What to make of an expanding universe? For one thing, roll the ‘movie’ in reverse and we have all the matter concentrated in what seems to be a single point,...
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What can we learn about art by studying perception, cognition, emotion? And what can we learn about perception, cognition, emotion by studying art?
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Some say that science and theology together reveal deep reality. Others say that only science makes sense; theology is myth. Which maximizes knowledge of the most profound...
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Science and religion-each pursues Big Truth and offers total solutions. Science works. That’s for sure. Religion? Not so sure. Does any reality exist beyond the...
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What is the three-way relationship among mind, art, and transcendence? What is it about art that can elicit the sense of transcendence, going beyond the self, bursting the...
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What is life and how did it arise from non-life? Is it as simple as the random organization of complex chemicals on the early Earth? What are the pathways whereby chemicals...
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When you ask “what things really exist”, and you think deeply about this universal probe, you see the whole world anew. It’s such a simple question; how...
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Here’s the ultimate question: what if it were true that everything always and forever had been ‘nothing’? Imagine that not a single thing ever...
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