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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.

Syllabus

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
36: Data Analytics
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Steven Gimbel

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