Art Seeking Understanding (ASU): Closer To Truth tracks on-going ASU projects seeking modes of discovery and ways to deepen understanding. We focus on each project’s...
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Some claim that their scientific study of extrasensory perception, or parapsychology, overturns the worldview of science. Should we take these startling pronouncements...
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Episode 11
Season 01
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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.
Episode 05
If it seems obvious that you are perfectly free to choose and decide, then it seems perfectly clear that you underestimate the problem (and have never questioned a...
Episode 10
Season 02
How is it possible that mushy masses of brain cells, passing chemicals and shooting sparks, literally are mental sensations and subjective feelings? They seem so radically...
What is it about the brain that enables some scientists to claim they can explain mind? And what is it about scientific explanations that some philosophers reject?
Episode 04
Nothing means anything without our brains: not science, not theology, not politics, not love. Everything we know and do-all the sense of human thought, all the feelings of...
Episode 01
Season 05
Free will seems the simplest of notions. Why then is free will so vexing to philosophers? Here’s why: no one knows how free will works! Science, seemingly, permits no...
Episode 09
Season 06
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If mind and brain are the same thing, then the physical world is likely all that exists. But if mind and brain are not the same thing, then what? Could reality go beyond the...
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