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13 Episodes 2010 - 2010
Episode 1
Thu, Sep 30, 201026 mins
Nothing means anything without our brains: not science, not theology, not politics, not love. Everything we know and do - all the sense of human thought, all the feelings of human emotion-all are the product of the brains in our heads.
Episode 2
Thu, Oct 7, 201026 mins
We human beings sit roughly midway between atoms and galaxies, and both must be so perfectly structured for us to exist. It's called "fine tuning" and it's all so breathtakingly precise that it cries out for explanation.
Episode 3
Thu, Oct 14, 201026 mins
The God debate is not a game. Is there a God? If so, what are God's essences and traits? What are all the ways that God could be? Or could not be? We discover different beliefs of different kinds of Gods.
Episode 4
Thu, Oct 21, 201026 mins
When we speak about the future of the universe, we mean when the sun burns out, when galaxies collide, when everything flies apart and ultimately evaporates. Do the untold billions & trillions of years from now make it irrelevant today?
Episode 5
Thu, Oct 28, 201026 mins
Are human beings purely physical? Evolved at random and destined to die, extinguished forever? Or are we something more? A spirit or a soul, with existence beyond?
Episode 6
Thu, Nov 4, 201026 mins
If God exists, did God create everything? Did God create out of literally "nothing"? If there was no beginning to the cosmos, just the universe going through endless cycles, what then? What about "abstract objects" like logic and numbers?
Episode 7
Thu, Nov 11, 201026 mins
Is there more than one universe? According to current cosmology, our entire gigantic universe is only one of innumerable universes, each universe like one tiny bubble in a limitless ocean of universes. What could all this mean?
Episode 8
Thu, Nov 18, 201026 mins
Consciousness is the great mystery of inner awareness. Where does it exist? Humans, obviously. Animals? Which animals? What about non-biological intelligences like super-supercomputers of the future?
Episode 9
Thu, Nov 25, 201026 mins
Most people believe that God exists and religion is God's revelation. But some claim that religion needs nothing supernatural; that religion, without God, can flourish because personal psychology and group sociology drive religion.
Episode 10
Thu, Dec 2, 201026 mins
Time seems natural and absolute - the flow of moments one following another from the unknown past to the knife's edge present to the unknowable future. But this is not so. Einstein shocked the world by showing that time was "relative."
Episode 11
Thu, Dec 9, 201026 mins
What does it mean to be a "self"? Look at an old photo then look in the mirror. Those two images are of the same person, right? Their memories and virtually every atom is different. We feel unity across time, but is this an illusion?
Episode 12
Thu, Dec 16, 201026 mins
If God exists, one most important question is whether God is a "person". Only a person has awareness, beliefs, intents, goals, relationships. An impersonal force has none of these.
Episode 13
Thu, Dec 23, 201026 mins
Pushing boundaries, trying to discern existence, searching the foundations of reality, knowing all that can be known. Here are the ultimate questions.