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Alan Lightman: Can Science Explain Spirituality?

Jul 4, 2023
38:12
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 3min
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2
The Importance of Transcendent Experiences
03:03 • 2min
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3
The Immortality of Mathematics
04:35 • 2min
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4
The Suffering Benefits of Spirituality
06:57 • 2min
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5
The Power of Nature
08:46 • 3min
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6
The Power of Consciousness
12:03 • 2min
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7
The Emergence of Complexity
13:54 • 2min
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8
The Primal Affinity for Nature
15:31 • 3min
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The Importance of Spirituality
18:13 • 2min
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The Denial of Death Is the Driving Force of Civilization
20:32 • 4min
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The Importance of Listening
24:04 • 2min
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The Creative Transcendent Experience
26:10 • 2min
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The Connection Between the Transcendental Experience and Harps Well
28:19 • 2min
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The Power of Consciousness
30:19 • 2min
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15
How to Stop a Compulsive Talker
31:49 • 2min
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The Transcendence Brain: Spirituality in the Age of Science
33:29 • 5min
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A physicist whose world has no room for spirits, but who has experienced many eerily transcendent moments – both in nature and in his work – sets out to understand the unexplainable.

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