Searching: Our Quest for Meaning in the Age of Science

The Stars & The Osprey

Episode 101 | 56m 44s  | Video has closed captioning.

“The Stars & The Osprey” begins with Alan Lightman's late-night experience alone on the ocean when he felt connected to the stars and ends with a memorable eye-to-eye encounter with a wild creature. Alan attempts to reconcile these transcendent experiences with the material world of atoms and molecules. Can science explain such experiences in terms of the brain? Are humans nothing but matter?