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Closer to Truth

Season 16 2016
TV-G

  • 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z on PBS
  • 30m
  • 5h 38m (13 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Documentary, Talk Show
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 & Thinking, Technology & Society, and Universe & Meaning. Topics for season 3 are clustered in 4 categories: Brain & Mind, Biology & Medicine, Cosmos & Universe, and Science & Our World.

13 episodes

Season Premiere

2016-05-13T04:00:00Z

16x01 When Brains Go Bad?

Season Premiere

16x01 When Brains Go Bad?

  • 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z26m

How normal brains work; effects of brain damage.

Whether humankind has underestimated the risks of global catastrophe and human extinction.

If there is a God, how does God make miracles happen; what miracles imply about how God relates to the world.

Consciousness, inner experience and language; whether consciousness causes language or vice versa.

2016-06-10T04:00:00Z

16x05 Can God and Science Mix?

16x05 Can God and Science Mix?

  • 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z26m

Science and religion.

Whether God or human psychology generates faith.

Whether physical facts about the brain account for mental experiences of the mind.

Whether there is more to materialism than the laws of physics.

Whether anything exists beyond the physical world.

Mistakes made by those who argue the existence of God.

The essence of science.

Whether there are limits and boundaries to science.

Cognitive scientist Marvin Minsky's analysis of brains, minds, artificial intelligence, religion and God.

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