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Calabash
6th July 2014, 13:17
Professor Russell Stannard (Department of Physical Sciences, The Open University) presents a series with numerous open questions about our consciousness and the physical brain, free will, cosmology and life. He has the ability to communicate in a straightfoward non-nerdy manner and convey information in a way that is easy to follow and understand.

One day he says, we will reach the limits of science and it will grind to a halt. Science is the pursuit of knowledge to understand the physical world around us. One day we will reach the boundaries of the knowable. Perhaps we have already reached them. There are questions that we cannot answer and perhaps never will.

Here are the first three parts of a 10-part documentary. They're all on You Tube if you would like to see them all. Please note that the Professor does NOT cut the worm in half in the first video :) - what a relief . . . .

Consciousness and the Limits of Science

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF54xqYhIGA&list=PL3096540179B12F8D

Free Will and Determinism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8EI4obG5zM&index=2&list=PL3096540179B12F8D

Cosmology

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZFEayYlQ0U&index=3&list=PL3096540179B12F8D





Perhaps, like me, you subscribe to the Top Docmentaries website? For those who don't here's a link to that website which is well worth a look as there is so much of interest on there.

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/

Tribe
6th July 2014, 13:25
Many thanks for this post calabash , looks very interesting , :) x