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Closer to Truth - Best of Consciousness
| Website: | https://closertotruth.com/topic/consciousness-consciousness/ |
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| Next Airing: | Sun, May 19th, 2024 at 10:30 PM on UEN-TV |
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Closer To Truth explores fundamental issues of universe, brain/mind, religion, meaning and purpose through intimate, candid conversations with leading scientists, philosophers, scholars, theologians and creative thinkers of all kinds. The shows are a rich visual experience, shot entirely on location in high definition with multiple cameras generating film-like production values. The visual lushness of the high definition, on-location productions, combined with the intriguing titles of the shows, builds audiences already interested in such perennial topics.
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Does Esp Reveal The Nonphysical?
Some claim that their scientific study of extrasensory perception, or parapsychology, overturns the worldview of science. Should we take these startling pronouncements seriously?
Next Airing: Sun, May 19th, 2024 at 10:30 PM on UEN-TV Length: 00:26:45 Usage rights: 9/29/2023 to 9/30/2025 -
Is Consciousness Ultimate Reality?
Some say that consciousness is the only true reality-that everything else, including the universe, comes from consciousness. If so, how would consciousness relate to the world?
Next Airing: Sun, May 26th, 2024 at 10:30 PM on UEN-TV Length: 00:26:45 Usage rights: 9/29/2023 to 9/30/2025 -
Why Explore Consciousness and Cosmos?
Cosmos and consciousness seem utterly different, the former encompassing the vast universe, the latter emerging from tiny brains. Yet consciousness founds most religions, and some cosmologists speak quietly, profoundly, about consciousness.
Next Airing: Sun, Jun 2nd, 2024 at 10:30 PM on UEN-TV Length: 00:26:45 Usage rights: 9/29/2023 to 9/30/2025 -
Can Dualism Explain Consciousness?
Dualism claims reality has two parts, a physical and a nonphysical (mental or spiritual), both equally real. Dualism is believed by most people but rejected by most philosophers and scientists.
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Can Enlarged Materialism Explain Consciousness?
Materialism is the belief that only physical things are real. But physical things seem so utterly different from mental things. Could there be more to materialism than the known laws of physics?
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Confronting Consciousness
Consciousness is what mental activity feels like, the private inner experience of sensation, thought and emotion. Consciousness is like nothing else.
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Does Consciousness Require a Radical Explanation?
What causes consciousness? Our inner sense of awareness is at once most mundane and most bizarre. No explanation makes sense. Here are three novel candidates for explaining consciousness.
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Is Consciousness An Illusion?
Is consciousness something special in the universe, a carrier of meaning and purpose? Or is consciousness a mere artifact of the brain, a by-product of evolution? I hope consciousness is special, which is why I must be a skeptic.
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Is Consciousness Fundamental?
Is our mental life a random accident, solely the product or byproduct of physical brain? Or is there something deeply special about conscious awareness that may reveal a hidden reality?
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Toward A Science of Consciousness?
Why do we have inner awareness? Why does it 'feel like something' inside to see, hear, taste, think? It's called 'consciousness' and it seems mysterious-but can science explain it? We talk to experts at the 20th biennial conference, "Toward a Science of Consciousness."
Length: 00:26:45 Usage rights: 9/29/2023 to 9/30/2025