Once you acknowledge that plants are intelligent and sentient beings, moral questions quickly follow. Should they have rights? How can we think of plants as "persons"? Plant scientist Matt Hall sorts out these ideas with Steve.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
Religion and Philosophy
Alchemists believed that if they could transform matter, why not also the spirit, or the self? That last part is what’s attracting new followers today, like Sara Durn.
Pamela Smith's science history students spend a semester taking medieval alchemical recipes and re-creating them in a lab.
When things don't go the way they're supposed to — viruses, star systems, presidents, even fish — why do we so quickly seek order to explain the chaos?
Philosopher John Kaag discusses how the 19th century thinker William James might help us seek meaning and purpose in a confusing time.
How can we, individually and collectively, find meaning in the experience of the coronavirus pandemic?
David Kessler is one of the foremost experts on death and grieving. He’s written many books on the subject, and worked with Elizabeth Kubler Ross on famous five stages of grief. He recently added a sixth: finding meaning.
How do you know what’s real? Start with your senses — if you can see, touch, hear or taste something, it’s real — right? Not necessarily, according to cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman and neurologist Suzanne O’Sullivan.
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