Fifty internationally renowned scientists and scholars challenge all manner of current belief, from general consciousness to the Big Bang, in this official companion volume to the groundbreaking new PBS series.

Contributors

vii

Acknowledgments

xxiii

Introduction

xxv

PART ONE: BRAIN & MIND

What Is Consciousness?

3

(16)

Do Brains Make Minds?

19

(16)

Strange Physics of the Mind?

35

(16)

Can Science Seek the Soul?

51

(14)

What Is Parapsychology?

65

(16)

Can ESP Affect Your Life?

81

(18)

PART TWO: HEALTH & SEX

Will Gene Therapy Change the Human Race?

99

(12)

Can You Really Extend Your Life?

111

(12)

Does Sex Have a Future?

123

(14)

Who Needs Sex Therapy?

137

(18)

PART THREE: CREATIVITY & THINKING

What's Creativity and Who's Creative?

155

(12)

How Does Creativity Work at Work?

167

(12)

Can You Learn to Be Creative?

179

(12)

How Did We Think in the Last Millennium?

191

(12)

How Does Technology Transform Thinking?

203

(14)

Why Do We Make Music and Art?

217

(14)

PART FOUR: TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY

New Communities for the New Millennium?

231

(12)

Whatever Happened to Ethics and Civility?

243

(12)

Will the Internet Change Humanity?

255

(14)

How Does Technology Transform Society?

269

(14)

Can We See the Near Future---Year 2025?

283

(12)

Can We Imagine the Far Future---Year 3000?

295

(16)

PART FIVE: UNIVERSE & MEANING

What Are the Grand Questions of Science?

311

(14)

What Are the Next Breakthroughs in Science?

325

(12)

Why Is Quantum Physics So Beautiful?

337

(14)

When and How Did This Universe Begin?

351

(18)

Will This Universe Ever End?

369

(16)

Will Intelligence Fill the Universe?

385

(12)

Epilogue

397

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