Charles Harper Jr. - What are the Ultimate Questions of the Natural World?

What are the most fundamental questions, the most penetrating questions, that we can ask of the natural world? Stretch your mind. Envision all manner of things, whether in the ‘heavens’ or on the Earth. What might be the ultimate theories of a future physics? What are the bounds of science? Have no constraints on your questions.

Charles L. Harper Jr. is former Executive Director and Senior Vice President of the John Templeton Foundation. He is also coeditor of "Science & Ultimate Reality: Quantum Theory, Cosmology and Complexity" along with John Barrow and Paul Davies

Closer To Truth, hosted by Robert Lawrence Kuhn and directed by Peter Getzels, presents the world’s greatest thinkers exploring humanity’s deepest questions. Discover fundamental issues of existence. Engage new and diverse ways of thinking. Appreciate intense debates. Share your own opinions. Seek your own answers.

[ansleyrubarb]

...Please, the beautiful accumulation of knowledge/understanding just between you two, I am sure will not just cease when you pass. You both have different fingerprints, and I believe you will continue to refine your thirst for truth, respectfully, Chuck...captivus brevis...you tube...Even starting with your births, unlearned, yet look at your individual growths...Blessings...

[windfoil]

Very enjoyable interview. Thanks. I don't think we can really know anything about meaning or purpose until the whole story has played out. It's what you can do when it's all over with because you have experienced something from beginning to end.

[nilanjanchatterjee]

Who am I? Who are You ? Are two questions that are ultimate

[catherinemoore]

Brilliant. 👌🙏Loved it. Thank you for this video: intelligence oozes from it.

[georgeangles]

What is time is not a deep question. There's an easy answer to it that expands into so much more

[infinitygame]

The ULTIMATE QUESTION IS FINDING ONE MORE PURPOSE OF LIFE BEYOND ALL THAT WE KNOW UNLESS AND UNTILL ALL ANSWERS GET MERGED TO FORM A LOOP OF UNDERSTANDING NEUTRALLY

[kimsahl]

The two questions are 1) what is Nature? 2) how does Nature act?

[Maxwell-mvrx]

Are there ultimate questions about Nature? Of NOT because unpredictable consciousness keep out how figuret It out . There are NOT definitive and perfect pictures about Universe absolutetly reality It is out.. This video are completely wortheless cosmology physic.

[SRAVALM]

Time.

My teacher recommended 'time and Eternity' by Coomaraswamy. I own a copy.
Whatever you do, don't read this book, or you might become wise and understand what time is.

[sujok-acupuncture]

None of the existential question has answer. The so called answers are only our presumptions.

[michelangelope]

I live to change the world, i don't live for the trophy. I want to abolish the death penalty for all crimes. If you are reading this loving poem from prison on death row waiting to be executed I want to give you hope. I am doing everything I can with what I got to save your life. Success is a slope upwards when it should be plain. I claim I have discovered God exists and I can prove it. You have to understand to save your life. The most powerful knowledge is to know God exists. If you knew God exists would you dedicate your life to discover the true God? The true God is Spinoza's God and my God and the truth matters. Imagine one world with one country with one humanity with one law. Language is not a problem, the information can be translated or other language can be learned. I am talking about leaving the bicycle unprotected because to protect the bicycle is a waste of time and money because humanity understand when reality is hurt God is literally hurt, for eternity. God is a life, God is transforming, God is conscious feeling, sleeping, living God's Creation. God's Creation is the most important. The most intelligent, cautious and sensible is to take care of God's Creation, protect life. If I am capable of understanding the nature of God you are capable of understanding the nature of God. To understand the nature of God you have to understand reality is eternal because from nothing can not be created something. From something that doesn't exist can not be created something. Reality is created from reality. What has a beginning of existence was created from what is eternal. God is literally a miracle impossible to understand. Reality is unbelievable. We only have one life and it is forever. Why to be wrong when you can be right? Is it possible to be wrong? The wars are absurd. Innocent and vulnerable children are hurt and killed in conflicts. The past is forever history. The past can not be changed, that's how reality functions. The most important is knowledge. Production is not so important. What is important is to know how to build a car, and  the number of cars made is less important. What is important is to know to live well understanding reality, the longest possible. I want to live the longest positive. I want to live forever. The war can end with the truth. The truth is atheism is a logical fallacy that assumes God is the religious idea of the creator of the creation to conclude wrongly no creator exists because a particular idea of God doesn’t exist. The idea of God is not religious. Spinoza was right and nobody listened. Thank you.

[evaadam]

Here is one question to make you realize that your whole being is not entirely natural, physical, or material :

Is the freedom to choose TO BELIEVE in Supernatural GOD or to believe in satan, or to believe anything for lack of proof, part of properties of physical matter while being driven or enslaved by physical laws ALL THE TIME beyond its control ?

[bruceylwang]

The most fundamental questions, the most penetrating questions, the Ultimate Questions are Bird flocks, Fish schools.

[DCDevTanelorn]

I need help understanding his reference to a Mao Zedong universe…

[VolodymyrPankov]

I started to listen and feel that it's verbage and i checked who he is and he is: Charles Harper Jr.
Philanthropic Consultant, Philosopher of Science, and Theologian

[angeleverable]

"Not only is the universe queerer than we suppose, but I also suspect it is queerer than we can suppose". J.B. S. Haldane. Humanity only poses questions about nature to which there is at least a partial answer through verification and falsification. Questions of meaning, purpose, and sundry are meaningless. They lie outside the scope of science and their answers are all relative to culture and language. Frogs and lions have an understanding of their meaning in the universe just not ours.