Free will seems so obvious. Whatever I want to do, I just do. But could ‘I’ be fooled? Some say that free will is an illusion, and they back up their claim with...
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In the last thousand years, we’ve been transported from knights on horses to kids on computers. Life and how we live has been incredibly transformed, but humanity has...
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The fine-tuning of the constants of nature, which seems required for the existence of stars and planets and certainly for life and mind, is a fascinating feature of our...
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What would it be like to live forever? Immortality is the promise of most religions, thwarting the looming fateful finality of death. Everything in science screams...
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Philosophers and brain scientists argue that our ‘will’ is less ‘free’ than we think. How do arguments about free will impact morality and civil society, including...
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Episode 09
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There is so much in the universe that is astonishing, from the smallest particles to the largest galaxies. Hear the wonder and awe from the scientists who discover the...
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I look up and I look down and I chill with awe. I look up to the universe and envision hundreds of billions of galaxies. I look down to the atom and imagine minuscule,...
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Season 07
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We feel as if our consciousness is unified—we integrate sight, sound, all the senses. Our minds feel as an indivisible whole. But eye or brain injury can alter or eliminate...
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Got sex? As a society, we certainly are obsessed with sex, but despite the hype, some experts claim that as individuals we’re finding less pleasure and fulfillment....
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What enables structures to form in the universe? How did galaxies, stars and planets develop from the primeval plasma soup? What are the laws of nature that bring about...
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Does everything about a person disappear at death? The body? Sure, it’s gone. The brain? It stops working, then dissolves. But what about awareness? Does our...
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