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Closer to Truth Season 1 Episodes

  • 2000-2024
  • 24 Seasons
  • Documentary
  • TV-PG
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Closer To Truth is a public television series featuring scientists, philosophers, theologians and scholars exploring the deepest questions of Cosmos, Consciousness and Meaning-the structure of the universe, the nature of the mind and the search for ultimate reality.

Season 1 Episode Guide

Season 1

43 Episodes 0 - 2000

Episode 1

What Are the Grand Questions of Science?

Sat, Apr 1, 200026 mins

To discern whether God really exists, one should understand diverse views of God. Closer to Truth asks leading philosophers what they think about God.

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Episode 2

Will the Internet Change Humanity?

Sat, Apr 1, 2000

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Episode 3

What's Creativity and Who's Creative?

Sat, Apr 1, 2000

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Episode 4

New Communities for the New Millennium?

Sat, Apr 1, 2000

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Episode 5

How Did This Universe Begin?

Sat, Apr 1, 2000

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Episode 6

Can We See the Near Future: Year 2025?

Sat, Apr 1, 2000

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Episode 7

What Is Consciousness?

Sat, Apr 1, 200026 mins

Consciousness is what we know best and can explain least. What does it feel like inside to see the color red, smell pungent garlic or hear glorious Beethoven? Closer to Truth explores why consciousness is baffling.

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Episode 8

Can You Really Extend Your Life?

Sat, Apr 1, 2000

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Episode 9

Can ESP Affect Our Lives?

Sat, Apr 1, 2000

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Episode 10

Whatever Happened to Ethics and Civility?

Sat, Apr 1, 2000

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Episode 11

How Does Technology Transform Thinking?

Sat, Apr 1, 2000

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Episode 12

Strange Physics of the Mind?

Sat, Apr 1, 2000

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Episode 13

Can Science Seek the Soul?

Sat, Apr 1, 2000

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Episode 14

Does Sex Have a Future?

Sat, Apr 1, 2000

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Episode 15

Can We Imagine the Far Future: Year 3000?

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Episode 16

What Are the Next Breakthroughs in Science?

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Episode 17

How Does Creativity Work at Work?

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Episode 18

Do Brains Make Minds?

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Episode 19

Will Gene Therapy Change the Human Race?

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Episode 20

Why Do We Make Music and Art?

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Episode 21

Why Is Quantum Physics So Beautiful?

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Episode 22

How Did We Think in the Last Millennium?

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Episode 23

Who Needs Sex Therapy?

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Episode 24

How Does Technology Transform Society?

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Episode 25

Can You Learn to Be Creative?

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Episode 26

What Is Parapsychology?

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Episode 27

Will This Universe Ever End?

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Episode 28

Will Intelligence Fill the Universe?

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Episode 29

Is Science Fiction Science?

Does science fiction have anything to add to our understanding of science.

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Episode 30

Can We Believe in Both Science and Religion?

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Episode 31

How Does the Autistic Brain Work?

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Episode 32

How Weird Is the Cosmos?

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Episode 33

Microbes: Friend or Foe?

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Episode 34

How Does Order Arise in the Universe?

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Episode 35

Why Is Music So Significant?

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Episode 36

Will Computers Take a Quantum Leap?

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Episode 37

Does Psychiatry Have a Split Personality?

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Episode 38

How Does Basic Science Defend America?

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Episode 39

Who Gets to Validate Alternative Medicine?

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Episode 40

Is Consciousness Definable?

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Episode 41

Is the Universe Full of Life?

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Episode 42

Can Religion Withstand Technology?

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Episode 43

Testing New Drugs: Are People Guinea Pigs?

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