
Alan Lightman: Can Science Explain Spirituality?
Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda
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The Importance of Transcendent Experiences
It's an interesting expression that you were falling into infinity because you were looking up at the stars. So let me understand a little bit about transcendence. You're a materialist, right? I've read that it's very important to you that everything in the universe is some form of matter. Yes. No, I think they're within the realm of matter and I think that the brain and the mind are the same thing apart with Descartes on that issue. All of our experiences and especially our mental experiences all originate within the hundred billion neurons inside of our brains.
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