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Redefining Reality: The Intellectual Implications of Modern Science

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Get a grip on reality in 36 enthralling lectures about the changing view of what's real-in space, in matter, in society, and in your brain.

Topics Covered:

  • By This Professor
  • 01: Metaphysics and the Nature of Science
  • 02: Defining Reality
  • 03: Mathematics in Crisis
  • 04: Special Relativity
  • 05: General Relativity
  • 06: Big Bang Cosmology
  • 07: The Reality of Atoms
  • 08: Quantum Mechanics
  • 09: Quantum Field Theory
  • 10: Chaos Theory
  • 11: Dark Matter and Dark Energy
  • 12: Grand Unified Theories
  • 13: Quantum Consciousness
  • 14: Defining Reality in the Life Sciences
  • 15: Genes and Identity
  • 16: The Birth of Psychology
  • 17: Jung and the Behaviorists
  • 18: The Rediscovery of the Mind
  • 19: The Caring Brain
  • 20: Brain and Self
  • 21: Evolutionary Psychology
  • 22: The Birth of Sociology
  • 23: Competition and Cooperation
  • 24: Race and Reality
  • 25: Social Progress
  • 26: The Reality of Money
  • 27: The Origin of Life
  • 28: Exoplanets and Extraterrestrial Life
  • 29: Technology and Death
  • 30: Cloning and Identity
  • 31: Genetic Engineering
  • 32: Medically Enhanced Humans
  • 33: Transhumans: Making Living Gods
  • 34: Artificial Intelligence
  • 35: The Internet and Virtual Reality

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Get a grip on reality in 36 enthralling lectures about the changing view of what's real-in space, in matter, in society, and in your brain.

Topics Covered:
  • By This Professor
  • 01: Metaphysics and the Nature of Science
  • 02: Defining Reality
  • 03: Mathematics in Crisis
  • 04: Special Relativity
  • 05: General Relativity
  • 06: Big Bang Cosmology
  • 07: The Reality of Atoms
  • 08: Quantum Mechanics
  • 09: Quantum Field Theory
  • 10: Chaos Theory
  • 11: Dark Matter and Dark Energy
  • 12: Grand Unified Theories
  • 13: Quantum Consciousness
  • 14: Defining Reality in the Life Sciences
  • 15: Genes and Identity
  • 16: The Birth of Psychology
  • 17: Jung and the Behaviorists
  • 18: The Rediscovery of the Mind
  • 19: The Caring Brain
  • 20: Brain and Self
  • 21: Evolutionary Psychology
  • 22: The Birth of Sociology
  • 23: Competition and Cooperation
  • 24: Race and Reality
  • 25: Social Progress
  • 26: The Reality of Money
  • 27: The Origin of Life
  • 28: Exoplanets and Extraterrestrial Life
  • 29: Technology and Death
  • 30: Cloning and Identity
  • 31: Genetic Engineering
  • 32: Medically Enhanced Humans
  • 33: Transhumans: Making Living Gods
  • 34: Artificial Intelligence
  • 35: The Internet and Virtual Reality

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