Closer To Truth 2100s

Science & Philosophy
Producer: Getzels Gordon Productions & The Kuhn Foundation
Rights: Unlimited, 7/1/2022 to 7/31/2024 (Live Linear Streaming available)
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2101. Freeman Dyson, Part I: From Physics to the Far Future
Freeman Dyson, visionary extraordinaire, was one of the most inventive thinkers of our age: discovering new mathematics, challenging fundamental physics, colonizing space, searching for signatures of alien civilizations, imagining the far future of intelligence

2102. Freeman Dyson, Part II: Mind, God, Religion
Freeman Dyson, visionary extraordinaire and creatively disruptive: realities inaccessible to science, independent mental, mind in the cosmos, science and theology, even design arguments for God.

2103. What are Scientific Breakthroughs in Physics?
Science explores how the world works. Breakthroughs drive science, challenging conventional wisdom, changing ways of thinking. Physics is foundational. What are Breakthroughs in physics?

2104. What are Scientific Breakthroughs in Biology?
The mysteries of life constitute the science of biology. But solving biological mysteries often require Breakthroughs: new, even radical ways of thinking that disrupt current paradigms. What are Breakthroughs in biology?

2105. What is Philosophy of Scientific Breakthroughs?
To explore scientific Breakthroughs is to find theories or discoveries that challenge conventional wisdom, change patterns of thought, provide novel frameworks for research. What is the deep essence or general nature of scientific breakthroughs?

2106. How do Breakthroughs Happen in Physics?
The nature of scientific Breakthroughs is one approach; the process of scientific Breakthroughs is quite another. When physicists reflect on how they do physics, when physicists review the history of physics, what are the ways in which Breakthroughs occur?

2107. How do Breakthroughs Happen in Biology?  
Biologists work in different worlds than do physicists, separated by vast orders of magnitude, numbers of variables, and levels of complexity. Does the process of Breakthroughs by biologists differ from the process of Breakthroughs by physicists?

2108. What is Philosophy of the Breakthrough Process? 
Scientific Breakthroughs are discoveries or theories that are milestones and touchstones, signposts and short-cuts, surprises and revelations. How to get at the nature or essence of the Breakthrough process?

2109. How to Decipher Deception in Evolution?
Deception pervades all life, up and down the phylogenetic tree. Deceptions have a “purpose” — the well-being, often the survival, of the deceiver. But deceptions need not be done “on purpose”. In the tool-kit of evolution, what is the workload of deception?

2110. How does Deception Shape Brain and Mind?
What can we learn when people deceive? There are all kinds of deception: from lying, duplicity, and disguises, to propaganda, disinformation, and deep fakes. Self-deception, too, offers insight. Why would evolution select for deceiving ourselves?

2111. How do Human Brains Experience Music?
How does the brain process sounds, transforming mechanical changes in air pressure into astonishing mental experiences we call music? The neuroscience of music – from enrapturing love songs to martial national anthems – is radically challenging.

2112. Can Music Probe Human Mentality?
The pre-eminent power of music to affect human emotions exemplifies human-level experience. How can this happen? How does music alter mental states and what does this alteration reveal about mental states? Can music probe how the mind works?

2113. What would Transhuman Brains Mean?
How brain enhancements can correct disabilities are important questions. But not Closer To Truth questions. What happens to personal identity? Would “I” still be me? What about moral standing? Would it change? Could my mind be uploaded? Would “I” live on?