Philosopher David Chalmers is famous for outlining the "hard problem of consciousness." In this EXTENDED INTERVIEW, he says the materialist framework of science will never be able to explain subjective experience - our thoughts and feelings, the expereince of joy or sorrow, self-awareness.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Choreogapher Bill T. Jones recommends Lawrence Weschler's "Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees."
Dame Evelyn Glennie is an award winning solo percussionist and composer who performs with the great orchestras and popular artists. She's also deaf. She talks with Steve Paulson about touching sound.
Long before the discovery of water on Mars or Matt Damon's star turn in The Martian, Robert Zubrin has been advocating for a human mission to mars. His book, The Case for Mars, made a splash when it was first published in 1996, and has continued to be influential in both scientific and science fiction circles. Zubrin calls Mars "the Rosetta Stone" for understanding life in the universe. But he's not just interested in science. He also thinks the sheer challenge would bring positive and uplifting change to all of humankind.
Brian Greene is a physicist who specializes in string theory. Greene says that time appears to move in one direction only to complex organisms like people. At the atomic level, electrons don’t know one direction from another.
Storyteller Donald Davis spends Thanksgiving on Oracoke Island, off the coast of North Carolina. He tells one of his family’s favorite Thanksgiving tales.
Josh Ruxin's Dangerous Idea? Instead of foreign aid, use entrepreneurial investment to reduce poverty around the world.
Rumors are flying that we'll see a Major League baseball game in Havana next year. But that doesn't account for the thorny problem of Cuban defectors now playing in America, or the crumbling infrastructure of Havana's baseball stadiums.
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