Mindscape Ask Me Anything, Sean Carroll | April 2024

Welcome to the April 2024 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). We take questions asked by Patreons, whittle them down to a more manageable number -- based primarily on whether I have anything interesting to say about them, not whether the questions themselves are good -- and sometimes group them together if they are about a similar topic. Enjoy!

#podcast #ideas #science #philosophy #culture

[davegrundgeiger]

2:21:33 "I promise that if I find evidence for aliens or god, I will make that known only to my Patreon supporters." 🤣🤣🤣

[BrianFedirko]

Sean's world view, especially not accepting supernatural in any way, shape or form is unmatched. A true scientific thinker who has freewill and understanding at the basic level of thought and matter. Gr8! Peace ☮💜Love

[GoatOfTheWoods]

We meet again, fellow Mindscapers for 3 hours full of brain treats

[damirhotlovac]

Please please make video podcasts! I'm a visual learner and just enjoy learning in video form!

[Cytropical-dkwp]

Wake up babe, new Sean Carroll ama dropped. (Proceeds to dance to intro jingle)

[davegrundgeiger]

1:37:47 "The introduction of non-sphericity into your cows might be crucially important." 😆

[koolguy]

I'm now obsessed with the description of Ed Witten's quip about torsion theories as a "Delphic utterance"

[bryandraughn]

"They call it the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it!"----George Carlin

[TriuraniumOctoxide]

Good luck with the book release. Book 1 was great and filled a few gaps for me.

[tallbudha]

Just letting you know Sean that I will be listening to you here on youtube. It is becoming increasingly difficult to listen to anything on Spotify without paying for the service. Thanks for making your incredible content available to us for free.

[producer]

"Sorry about that, Chief" was a phrase that agent Maxwell Smart often humorously used in the 60s television series Get Smart starring Don Adams.

[kx]

If we can find our way around, it sounds good.

[davegrundgeiger]

That last answer was chef's kiss.

[alevans]

Much insight on so many issues. You are invaluable sir!

[EhyehShaddaiYHWH]

Sean I love your work. Keep it up and I cant wait for the next podcast.

[CorwynGC]

For Great Deceiver: Remember that all houses aren't priced at the average price. Most houses are more house than you need.

[madderhat]

The final question was the most important in the world.

[darianharrison]

great question and great answer at 15:40. The order of events is effectively lost when compressing data, the only way to know if there are any loops is by evaluating all the data until a loop is found (which may quickly become a computational/storage bottleneck). Otherwise a probability distribution (compressed representation) with some sampling scheme may lossily hint at the likelihood of there being a loop or not.

[andydavies]

Book sounds really interesting (and we could listen to your voice Sean from here to eternity!)

[DaxLLM]

I have a question... Do you think the discovery of gravitons will move us closer to a unified field theory?