How do moments of human connection and spiritual experience align with our modern scientific world? Are they mutually exclusive? Can one explain the existence of the other? Can a scientific mind still hold space for spirituality? Join acclaimed physicist and novelist Alan Lightman, and Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago Dan Hooper for a lyrical and enlightening conversation that will explore the answers to these questions and more found in his new nonfiction book The Transcendent Brain.

This program is presented in partnership with CHIRP Radio.

A book signing will follow this program.

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