"Closer to Truth harnesses the intellectual energy of more than fifty of today's most influential minds to offer a broad exploration of today's important trends in science, philosophy, and human understanding. Over the course of twenty-eight discussions, such scientists, philosophers, and visionaries as Patricia Churchland, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Francis Fukuyama, Ray Kurzweil, Leon Lederman, Marvin Minsky, Bruce Murray, John Searle, and Neil de Grasse Tyson share their insights into a vast array of timely intellectual issues: consciousness, cosmology, creativity, sexuality, soul, and the evolution of our species and its machines."--BOOK JACKET