Closer to Truth - Season 1

Closer to Truth - Season 1

Season 1

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Datesmai 7, 2000 - août 6, 2000
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Episodes

What are the Grand Questions of Science?
Season 1Episode 130 min

What are the Grand Questions of Science?

mai 7, 2000
Will the Internet Change Humanity?
Season 1Episode 230 min

Will the Internet Change Humanity?

mai 14, 2000
What's Creativity and Who's Creative?
Season 1Episode 330 min

What's Creativity and Who's Creative?

A discussion on creativity, where it comes from and how it's applied. Among the panelists: TV producer Stephen J. Cannell, inventor Ray Kurzweil, music educator Robert Freeman, creativity expert Mihaly Csikszentmihaly and corporate-creativity expert John Kao.
mai 21, 2000
New Communities for the New Millennium?
Season 1Episode 430 min

New Communities for the New Millennium?

Topic: the concept of community in political, social, scientific and technological contexts. Panelists include astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, Bruce Chapman (Discovery Institute), social architect Barbara Marx Hubbard, linguist John McWhorter and Yale Law School student Saru Jayaraman. Host: Robert L. Kuhn.
mai 28, 2000
How Did This Universe Begin?
Season 1Episode 530 min

How Did This Universe Begin?

A discussion of scientific findings concerning the beginnings of the universe, with Nobel Prize-winning physicist Leon Lederman, cosmologists Andrei Linde and Wendy Freedman, theologian Nancey Murphy and mathematician Frank Tipler. Host: Robert L. Kuhn.
juin 4, 2000
Can We See the Near Future - Year 2025?
Season 1Episode 630 min

Can We See the Near Future - Year 2025?

Experts try to forecast the near future (2025). Guests include creativity expert Edward de Bono, fuzzy-logic expert Bart Kosko, artificial-intelligence expert Edward Feigenbaum, futurist Graham T.T. Molitor and planetary scientist Bruce Murray. Host: Robert L. Kuhn.
juin 11, 2000
What Is Consciousness?
Season 1Episode 730 min

What Is Consciousness?

A discussion of the nature of consciousness. Panelists include philosophy professor John Searle, physicist James Trefil, consciousness expert David Chalmers, anthropologist Marilyn Schlitz and theoretical physicist Fred Alan Wolf. Host: Robert Kuhn.
juin 18, 2000
Can You Really Extend Your Life?
Season 1Episode 830 min

Can You Really Extend Your Life?

A discussion of the biology of aging and facts about living longer. The panel includes longevity expert Roy Walford, gene therapist W. French Anderson, Yale professor of surgery Sherwin Nuland, fitness theorist Arthur S. De Vany and biophysicist Gregory Stock. Host: Robert L. Kuhn.
juin 25, 2000
Can ESP Affect Our Lives?
Season 1Episode 930 min

Can ESP Affect Our Lives?

A discussion of extrasensory perception by physicist James Trefil, parapsychologists Charles Tart and Dean Radin, neuropsychologist Barry Beyerstein and anthropologist Marilyn Schlitz. Host: Robert L. Kuhn.
juil. 2, 2000
Whatever Happened to Ethics and Civility?
Season 1Episode 1030 min

Whatever Happened to Ethics and Civility?

A discussion of the waning of ethics and civility in American society. Panelists include Bruce Chapman (Discovery Institute), theologian Richard Mouw, Yale Law School student Saru Jayaraman, linguist John McWhorter and social architect Barbara Marx Hubbard.
juil. 9, 2000
How Does Technology Transform Thinking?
Season 1Episode 1130 min

How Does Technology Transform Thinking?

A discussion of how technology transforms thinking, with geopolitical economist Francis Fukuyama, artificial-intelligence expert Marvin Minsky, fuzzy-logic expert Bart Kosko, planetary scientist Bruce Murray and Teledyne co-founder George Kozmetsky. Host: Robert L. Kuhn.
juil. 16, 2000
Strange Physics of the Mind?
Season 1Episode 1230 min

Strange Physics of the Mind?

juil. 23, 2000
Can Science Seek the Soul?
Season 1Episode 1330 min

Can Science Seek the Soul?

A discussion of whether the soul exists, with philosophy professor John Searle, theoretical physicist Fred Alan Wolf, neuropsychologist Warren Brown, and parapsychologists Dean Radin and Charles Tart. Host: Robert L. Kuhn.
juil. 30, 2000
Does Sex Have a Future?
Season 1Episode 1430 min

Does Sex Have a Future?

A discussion of what happens when technology multiplies sexual options and accelerates sexual shifts, with sex therapists Cliff and Joyce Penner, biophysicist Gregory Stock, human-sexuality authority Paul Abramson and medical historian Vern Bullough. Host: Robert L. Kuhn.
août 6, 2000

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