Closer to Truth brings together leading scientists, scholars and artists to debate latest discoveries and their impact on the human condition. Series creator Robert Lawrence Kuhn hosts a series of spontaneous and intimate conversations with some of the world's most esteemed experts that combine leading-edge science and informed intuition to address the fundamental issues of our times. Topics for the first two seasons were clustered in 5 categories: Brain & Mind, Health & Sex, Creativity & Think…
Closer to Truth brings together leading scientists, scholars and artists to debate latest discoveries and their impact on the human condition. Series creator Robert Lawrence Kuhn hosts a series of spontaneous and intimate conversations with some of the world's most esteemed experts that combine leading-edge science and informed intuition to address the fundamental issues of our times. Topics for the first two seasons were clustered in 5 categories: Brain & Mind, Health & Sex, Creativity & Think…
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Seasons (24)
Season 1
7 May 2000 – 6 Aug 2000 · 14 episodes
1What are the Grand Questions of Science?7 May 2000
2Will the Internet Change Humanity?14 May 2000
3What's Creativity and Who's Creative?21 May 2000
4New Communities for the New Millennium?28 May 2000
5How Did This Universe Begin?4 Jun 2000
6Can We See the Near Future - Year 2025?11 Jun 2000
7What Is Consciousness?18 Jun 2000
8Can You Really Extend Your Life?25 Jun 2000
9Can ESP Affect Our Lives?2 Jul 2000
10Whatever Happened to Ethics and Civility?9 Jul 2000
11How Does Technology Transform Thinking?16 Jul 2000
12Strange Physics of the Mind?23 Jul 2000
13Can Science Seek the Soul?30 Jul 2000
14Does Sex Have a Future?6 Aug 2000
Season 2
10 Sep 2000 – 10 Dec 2000 · 14 episodes
1Can We Imagine the Far Future - Year 3000?10 Sep 2000
2What Are the Next Breakthroughs in Science?17 Sep 2000
3How Does Creativity Work at Work?24 Sep 2000
4Do Brains Make Minds?1 Oct 2000
5Will Gene Therapy Change the Human Race?8 Oct 2000
6Why Do We Make Music and Art?15 Oct 2000
7Why Is Quantum Physics So Beautiful?22 Oct 2000
8How Did We Think in the Last Millennium?29 Oct 2000
9Who Needs Sex Therapy?5 Nov 2000
10How Does Technology Transform Society?12 Nov 2000
11Can You Learn to Be Creative?19 Nov 2000
12What Is Parapsychology?26 Nov 2000
13Will This Universe Ever End?3 Dec 2000
14Will Intelligence Fill the Universe?10 Dec 2000
Season 3
1 May 2003 – 7 Aug 2003 · 15 episodes
1Is Science Fiction Science?1 May 2003
2Can We Believe in Both Science and Religion?8 May 2003
3How Does the Autistic Brain Work?15 May 2003
4How Weird Is the Cosmos?22 May 2003
5Microbes - Friend or Foe?29 May 2003
6How Does Order Arise in the Universe?5 Jun 2003
7What Makes Music So Significant?12 Jun 2003
8Will Computers Take a Quantum Leap?19 Jun 2003
9Does Psychiatry Have a Split Personality?26 Jun 2003
10How Does Basic Science Defend America?3 Jul 2003
11Who Gets to Validate Alternative Medicine?10 Jul 2003
12Is Consciousness Definable?17 Jul 2003
13Is the Universe Full of Life?24 Jul 2003
14Can Religion Withstand Technology?31 Jul 2003
15Testing New Drugs: Are People Guinea Pigs?7 Aug 2003
Season 4
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Season 7
Season 8
6 May 2010 – 24 Jun 2010 · 8 episodes
6How Is God the Creator?6 May 2010
7What Would Multiple Universes Mean?13 May 2010
8What Things Are Conscious?20 May 2010
9Can Religion Be Explained Without God?27 May 2010
10What's Real About Time?3 Jun 2010
11How Do People Maintain Their Identity?10 Jun 2010
12Is God a Person?17 Jun 2010
13Asking Ultimate Questions24 Jun 2010
Season 9
30 Sep 2010 – 23 Dec 2010 · 13 episodes
1Arguing God From Natural Theology30 Sep 2010
2What Is the Grand Structure of the Universe?7 Oct 2010
3Could ESP Reveal Spirit Existence?14 Oct 2010
4Is God All Knowing?21 Oct 2010
5Why Is the Quantum So Strange?28 Oct 2010
6Can Metaphysics Reveal Surprises?4 Nov 2010
7Is God Necessary?11 Nov 2010
8Would Multiple Universes Undermine God?18 Nov 2010
9Do Human Brains Have Free Will?25 Nov 2010
10Arguing for Agnosticism?2 Dec 2010
11Are Science and Religion at War?9 Dec 2010
12Why Explore Consciousness and Cosmos?16 Dec 2010
13A New Heaven and a New Earth?23 Dec 2010
Season 10
6 Jan 2011 – 24 Mar 2011 · 12 episodes
2Why Is the Universe Breathtaking?6 Jan 2011
3Does Consciousness Have Meaning?13 Jan 2011
4Arguing God From Miracles?20 Jan 2011
5Marvels of Space-Time?27 Jan 2011
6What Makes Brains Conscious?3 Feb 2011
7Is God Perfect?10 Feb 2011
8What Are the Scope and Limits of Science?17 Feb 2011
9Is Human Consciousness Special?24 Feb 2011
10If God Knows the Future, What Is Free Will?3 Mar 2011
11Can Science Talk God?10 Mar 2011
12Do Persons Survive Death?17 Mar 2011
13Is Theism Coherent?24 Mar 2011
Season 11
7 Apr 2011 – 23 Jun 2011 · 12 episodes
2What's Beyond Physics?7 Apr 2011
3Can ESP Reveal a New Reality?14 Apr 2011
4Arguing God From Consciousness?21 Apr 2011
5Does the Cosmos Provide Meaning?28 Apr 2011
6What Maintains Personal Identity?5 May 2011
7Arguing God From Being?12 May 2011
8Can Science and Theology Find Deep Reality?19 May 2011
9What's Wrong With Immortal Souls?26 May 2011
10Does God Have a Nature?2 Jun 2011
11Are There Things Not Physical?9 Jun 2011
12How Free Is God?16 Jun 2011
13Immortality and Eternal Life23 Jun 2011
Season 12
29 Sep 2011 – 22 Dec 2011 · 13 episodes
1Fallacies in Proving God Exists29 Sep 2011
2Is Life and Mind Inevitable in the Universe?6 Oct 2011
3Arguing God With Analytic Philosophy13 Oct 2011
4What Would Intelligent Aliens Mean?20 Oct 2011
5Does a Creator God Work?27 Oct 2011
6Mysteries of Cosmic Inflation3 Nov 2011
7How Is God All Powerful?10 Nov 2011
8Does Metaphysics Reveal Reality?17 Nov 2011
9Complexity From Simplicity?24 Nov 2011
10Do Humans Have Free Will?1 Dec 2011
11What Is God About?8 Dec 2011
12Does Consciousness Point to God?15 Dec 2011
13The Mystery of Existence?22 Dec 2011
Season 13
5 Apr 2012 – 21 Jun 2012 · 11 episodes
2Is Consciousness an Illusion?5 Apr 2012
3What Is God?12 Apr 2012
4Do General Principles Govern All Science?19 Apr 2012
6Diverse Argument for God3 May 2012
7Why Science and Religion Think Differently10 May 2012
8What Are Dreams About?17 May 2012
9Can God Face Up Evil?24 May 2012
10How Belief Systems Work31 May 2012
11Do Religions Complement or Contradict?7 Jun 2012
12What's in a Resurrection?14 Jun 2012
13Time at Sea21 Jun 2012
Season 14
10 Nov 2012 – 2 Feb 2013 · 13 episodes
1Time at Sea10 Nov 2012
2What Is Time?17 Nov 2012
3Why Believe in God?24 Nov 2012
4Alternative Concepts of God?1 Dec 2012
5Pantheism: Is the World God?8 Dec 2012
6How Do Brains Work?15 Dec 2012
7What Would an Infinite Cosmos Mean?22 Dec 2012
8What Is God's Eternity?29 Dec 2012
9Why Is Free Will a Big Question?5 Jan 2013
10Is Free Will an Illusion?12 Jan 2013
11What's in a Resurrection?19 Jan 2013
12Does Hell Reveal God?26 Jan 2013
13Confronting Consciousness2 Feb 2013
Season 15
8 Jun 2013 – 31 Aug 2013 · 13 episodes
1Did the Universe Have a Beginning?8 Jun 2013
2How Do Humans Differ From Other Animals?15 Jun 2013
3What Would It Feel Like to Be God?22 Jun 2013
4What's the New Atheism?29 Jun 2013
5How Does Personal Identity Persist Through Time?6 Jul 2013
6Can Philosophy of Religion Find God?13 Jul 2013
7Why Do We Sleep?20 Jul 2013
8Does Cosmic Fine Tuning Demand Explanation?27 Jul 2013
9Why Obsess About Free Will?3 Aug 2013
10Why Seek an Alternative God?10 Aug 2013
11Panentheism: Is the World in God?17 Aug 2013
12What Is Nothing?24 Aug 2013
13Why Anything at All?31 Aug 2013
Season 16
3 Mar 2014 – 26 May 2014 · 13 episodes
1What Is Ultimate Reality?3 Mar 2014
2What Is Consciousness?10 Mar 2014
3Is This God?17 Mar 2014
4Will the Universe Ever End?24 Mar 2014
5Can the Divine Be a Person?31 Mar 2014
6Is Death Final?7 Apr 2014
7What Causes Religious Belief?14 Apr 2014
8What Things Are Real?21 Apr 2014
9Does Moral Responsibility Require Free Will?28 Apr 2014
10What Can We Learn From Alternative Gods?5 May 2014
11Why God, Not Nothing?12 May 2014
12Does God's Knowledge Ruin Free Will?19 May 2014
13Is God Totally Free?26 May 2014
Season 17
3 Apr 2015 – 26 Jun 2015 · 13 episodes
1Can the Mind Heal the Body?3 Apr 2015
2Is God Responsible for Evil?10 Apr 2015
3What Is Information?17 Apr 2015
4Can Design Point to God?24 Apr 2015
5What Is Truth?1 May 2015
6Does Information Create the Cosmos?8 May 2015
7Why a Body in a Resurrection?15 May 2015
8Must Multiple Universes Exist?22 May 2015
9Toward a Science of Consciousness29 May 2015
10Big Questions in Free Will Part I5 Jun 2015
11Big Questions in Free Will Part II12 Jun 2015
12Can Free Will Survive God's Fore-knowledge?19 Jun 2015
13How Can God Not Be Free?26 Jun 2015
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