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Tables of Contents for Closer to Truth
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
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