Closer to Truth (2000)
Closer to Truth is a continuing television series on PBS & public television originally created, produced and hosted by Robert Lawrence Kuhn. The first premiere series aired in 2000 for 2 seasons, followed by a second series aired in 2003 for a single season. The current / third series of the program, Closer to Truth: Cosmos. Consciousness. God., launched in 2008, with 12 full seasons to date. Robert Lawrence Kuhn is the creator, executive producer, writer and presenter of the series. Peter Getzels is the co-creator and producer / director. The show is centered on on-camera conversations with leading scientists, philosophers, theologians, and scholars, covering a diverse range of topics or questions from the size and nature of the universe, to the existence and essence of God, to the mystery of consciousness and the notion of free will.
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Episodes
- 1 1. What are the Grand Questions of Science?2000-05-07
- 2 2. Will the Internet Change Humanity?2000-05-14
- 3 3. What's Creativity and Who's Creative?2000-05-21 · 30mA 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, cre
- 4 4. New Communities for the New Millennium?2000-05-28 · 30mTopic: the concept of community in political, social, scientific and technological contexts. Panelists include astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, Bruce Chapman (Discovery Institut
- 5 5. How Did This Universe Begin?2000-06-04 · 30mA discussion of scientific findings concerning the beginnings of the universe, with Nobel Prize-winning physicist Leon Lederman, cosmologists Andrei Linde and Wendy Freedman, theol
- 6 6. Can We See the Near Future - Year 2025?2000-06-11 · 30mExperts try to forecast the near future (2025). Guests include creativity expert Edward de Bono, fuzzy-logic expert Bart Kosko, artificial-intelligence expert Edward Feigenbaum, fu
- 7 7. What Is Consciousness?2000-06-18 · 30mA discussion of the nature of consciousness. Panelists include philosophy professor John Searle, physicist James Trefil, consciousness expert David Chalmers, anthropologist Marilyn
- 8 8. Can You Really Extend Your Life?2000-06-25 · 30mA 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 Sh
- 9 9. Can ESP Affect Our Lives?2000-07-02 · 30mA discussion of extrasensory perception by physicist James Trefil, parapsychologists Charles Tart and Dean Radin, neuropsychologist Barry Beyerstein and anthropologist Marilyn Schl
- 10 10. Whatever Happened to Ethics and Civility?2000-07-09 · 30mA 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
- 11 11. How Does Technology Transform Thinking?2000-07-16 · 30mA discussion of how technology transforms thinking, with geopolitical economist Francis Fukuyama, artificial-intelligence expert Marvin Minsky, fuzzy-logic expert Bart Kosko, plane
- 12 12. Strange Physics of the Mind?2000-07-23
- 13 13. Can Science Seek the Soul?2000-07-30 · 30mA discussion of whether the soul exists, with philosophy professor John Searle, theoretical physicist Fred Alan Wolf, neuropsychologist Warren Brown, and parapsychologists Dean Rad
- 14 14. Does Sex Have a Future?2000-08-06 · 30mA discussion of what happens when technology multiplies sexual options and accelerates sexual shifts, with sex therapists Cliff and Joyce Penner, biophysicist Gregory Stock, human-
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