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Silicon Soul reveals how science has failed to decipher many of the puzzles of the human mind.
Though some scientists assert that the mind can be under-stood and someday even copied by computers and robots, continuing advances show this understanding to be remarkably inadequate. Many who would like to view the mind as a mere mechanism now admit that modern science, in particular physics, has largely ignored the questions raised by the study of the mind, that human consciousness goes far beyond computation. The exis-tence of a higher being is seen in our very senses of personhood and self, in our logical and cre-ative abilities.
An exploration of the great human mysteries, the SOUL trilogy of programs bridges the gulf between modern science and religion, asserting that the price of scientific knowledge is not spiritual emptiness. Instead, SOUL shows how scientific progress has yielded more new enigmas than certainties, leading many scientists to see the hand of God at work in the elegant unity of our cosmos.
Join host Anthony Clare and many of the best scientific and religious minds of our time, such as Stephen Hawking, Danah Zohar and Paul Davies, in an exciting voyage of scientific and spiritual discovery.
SOUL is a BBC Co-Production with Holoform Research Inc., CTVC, Jerusalem Productions and Ikon Radio e Televisie 1992 BBC-TV Packaging 1993 Atlas Video, Inc. Cover: Joseph Yacinski Design Photography by Mark Daniels 50 Minutes/Color. Distributed by Atlas Video, Inc., Bethesda, MD
Silicon Soul reveals how science has failed to decipher many of the puzzles of the human mind.
Though some scientists assert that the mind can be under-stood and someday even copied by computers and robots, continuing advances show this understanding to be remarkably inadequate. Many who would like to view the mind as a mere mechanism now admit that modern science, in particular physics, has largely ignored the questions raised by the study of the mind, that human consciousness goes far beyond computation. The exis-tence of a higher being is seen in our very senses of personhood and self, in our logical and cre-ative abilities.
An exploration of the great human mysteries, the SOUL trilogy of programs bridges the gulf between modern science and religion, asserting that the price of scientific knowledge is not spiritual emptiness. Instead, SOUL shows how scientific progress has yielded more new enigmas than certainties, leading many scientists to see the hand of God at work in the elegant unity of our cosmos.
Join host Anthony Clare and many of the best scientific and religious minds of our time, such as Stephen Hawking, Danah Zohar and Paul Davies, in an exciting voyage of scientific and spiritual discovery.
SOUL is a BBC Co-Production with Holoform Research Inc., CTVC, Jerusalem Productions and Ikon Radio e Televisie 1992 BBC-TV Packaging 1993 Atlas Video, Inc. Cover: Joseph Yacinski Design Photography by Mark Daniels 50 Minutes/Color. Distributed by Atlas Video, Inc., Bethesda, MD
