Throughout history, dreams have fascinated and mystified. Messages from God? Images of the subconscious? Much about dreams is myth. What’s real? Science is now studying...
playlist
Topic Series
5 videos
38:09
Watch
It’s unstoppable and unavoidable, and it’s blowing to bits communication, business and life as we know it. Technology is making prettier television pictures,...
video
Roundtable
27:00
Why are ‘belief systems’ so powerful? How do they control religion and politics and all ways of thinking from a scientific worldview to conspiracy theories? What...
8 videos
1:04:17
Why does alien intelligence hold such fascination? Can we even conceive of what they might be like? To appreciate intelligent, sentient life in the universe, right now we...
10 videos
1:15:11
Scientists say my consciousness is just my brain. Theologians believe my consciousness reflects the God who created it. Mystics hold my consciousness is a drop in the ocean...
Episode
Episode 09
Season 07
26:46
contributor
How can the mindless microscopic particles that compose our brains ‘experience’ the setting sun, the Mozart Requiem, and romantic love? How can sparks of brain...
6 videos
1:03:37
For years we thought that in order to be creative you had to “be born with it.” Now, new thinking on the subject reveals that everyone can learn to be more...
27:12
Virtual immortality is the theory that when the fullness of our mental selves can be uploaded with first-person perfection to non-biological media, then when our mortal...
1:08:43
What is free will? Do we have free will? The ‘Big Questions in Free Will’ project tackles these issues in a multi-year study. In Part I, scientists and philosophers...
Episode 10
Season 14
26:47
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...
56:15
