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Can Scientists Be Spiritual? Alan Lightman | Into The Impossible Podcast (#306)

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Is the brain a computer? Where does the soul lie? Can quantum mechanics explain consciousness? Alan Lightman takes on these ancient questions and more in this fabulous new book chock-full of cutting-edge research and the latest discoveries in brain science.


Watch Alan's first episode on the Into the Impossible Podcast https://youtu.be/MG2cPltzCdY


Lightman is currently a Professor of the Practice of the Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Alan has written several books on topics ranging from relativity and gravitation to personal development. The topic of this episode of the Into The Impossible Podcast is his new book, The Transcendent Brain: Spirituality in the Age of Science.


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