Closer to Truth Season 1, Episode 11: How Does Technology Transform Thinking?

What are the Grand Questions of Science?

Will the Internet Change Humanity?

What's Creativity and Who's Creative?

A 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, creativity expert Mihaly Csikszentmihaly and corporate-creativity expert John Kao.

30 min

New Communities for the New Millennium?

Topic: the concept of community in political, social, scientific and technological contexts. Panelists include astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, Bruce Chapman (Discovery Institute), social architect Barbara Marx Hubbard, linguist John McWhorter and Yale Law School student Saru Jayaraman. Host: Robert L. Kuhn.

30 min

How Did This Universe Begin?

A discussion of scientific findings concerning the beginnings of the universe, with Nobel Prize-winning physicist Leon Lederman, cosmologists Andrei Linde and Wendy Freedman, theologian Nancey Murphy and mathematician Frank Tipler. Host: Robert L. Kuhn.

30 min

Can We See the Near Future - Year 2025?

Experts try to forecast the near future (2025). Guests include creativity expert Edward de Bono, fuzzy-logic expert Bart Kosko, artificial-intelligence expert Edward Feigenbaum, futurist Graham T.T. Molitor and planetary scientist Bruce Murray. Host: Robert L. Kuhn.

30 min

What Is Consciousness?

A discussion of the nature of consciousness. Panelists include philosophy professor John Searle, physicist James Trefil, consciousness expert David Chalmers, anthropologist Marilyn Schlitz and theoretical physicist Fred Alan Wolf. Host: Robert Kuhn.

30 min

Can You Really Extend Your Life?

A 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 Sherwin Nuland, fitness theorist Arthur S. De Vany and biophysicist Gregory Stock. Host: Robert L. Kuhn.

30 min

Can ESP Affect Our Lives?

A discussion of extrasensory perception by physicist James Trefil, parapsychologists Charles Tart and Dean Radin, neuropsychologist Barry Beyerstein and anthropologist Marilyn Schlitz. Host: Robert L. Kuhn.

30 min

Whatever Happened to Ethics and Civility?

A 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 Jayaraman, linguist John McWhorter and social architect Barbara Marx Hubbard.

30 min

Strange Physics of the Mind?

Can Science Seek the Soul?

A discussion of whether the soul exists, with philosophy professor John Searle, theoretical physicist Fred Alan Wolf, neuropsychologist Warren Brown, and parapsychologists Dean Radin and Charles Tart. Host: Robert L. Kuhn.

30 min

Does Sex Have a Future?

A discussion of what happens when technology multiplies sexual options and accelerates sexual shifts, with sex therapists Cliff and Joyce Penner, biophysicist Gregory Stock, human-sexuality authority Paul Abramson and medical historian Vern Bullough. Host: Robert L. Kuhn.

30 min