Mindscape Ask Me Anything, Sean Carroll | March 2022 

As always, amongst the most well spent three hours in my month. Every episode presents something that expands my horizons. Thanks.

Thank you Sean you bring sense to a lot off stuff not just science..

Pre-Friday quality time. Thank you so much for this Sean. 👍 Love your Marathon AMA sessions. Every minute of ordinary life is worth postponing, after family life of course. 😀

These have to be the best deal in online higher education, right? A top-tier prof's attention for 15mins, for $1?!!? It's almost absurd, is it not? When the Patreon doc gets made, this account should be highly featured.

Thank you Sean. You are the key "influencer" in my life. Please continue to do this. I'm sorry that I haven't given any money to you personally but I will try in the future. I have recently given £1000 to Ukrainian red cross and when that issue is resolved i will finance your battle against ignorance.

Thank you for the opportunity, including all those times I have been present to your reasoning, not referring how satisfied I got, since your 2012 Dark Matter... TTC course... Congrats on bringing knowledge to All.

How do I always manage to miss these? I've always wanted to ask Carrol's top 5 favorite science-fiction novels

As always, Sam demonstrates how to think about the most difficult and important problems. Another exceptional AMA.

I had no idea you were a basketball fan. I enjoyed hearing you speak on that.

Juicy Quote: " A Fusion of experimental fusion techniques with long proven high energy particle collider methods might ignite an explosion of data and knowledge of the quantum world"

Your voice is so smooth are you using the famous mic Neumann U87AI? Thank you for your wonderful endevour.

Professor Carrol, congratulation for you new position as an Philosopher. I'm not surprised...

I let my baby listen to mindscape hoping they soak up the intelligence

2:00 "... they're a tiny country [Ukraine] against a big country [Russia]" ... tiny ?! Geography fact check: it's the largest European country, Russia (3,969,100 km²), vs the second largest, Ukraine ( 603,628 km²) It is larger than France (551,628 km²) at number three. With 44 million people it's at place 8 out of 51 in terms of population. (Nr 1 is Russia again with 145 million)... "tiny" ... ;)

QM isn’t Background independent. So isn’t it premature to say MW view is correct? Or is Sean saying that it doesn’t need to be Background Independent for MW to still be right

The word "convenient" for the simple way to imagine how we invent imaginary & complex numbers may have just changed my life "in orders of magnitude". 🙂Thank you Sean, from the bottom of my philosophical heart. The way in which you can distill thoughts down to my lesser IQ level is amazing.

Hi Sean! Could it be two 3D universes inflate into existence periodically from the mouth of a 4D wormhole connecting two infinite 4D spaces?

Hello Sean, love you dearly, listening to every podcast! Again I urge you (because you mentioned it again here) to stop using audacity and switch to Ableton. It is a much more professional audio software and once you learn it you will be amazed at how effective and easy it is to use.

"ten to the ten to the ten to the ten to the ten to the 120 factorial" ..... thats a lot of universes

Always look forward to these, thank you for posting Sean.

Prof., including Ukraine invasion in "human condition" is, unfortunately that may be, accurate. Your opinion, synthesis

Matter is what matter does

Whitewashing was a very proper characterization of rewriting events. Being inspired by Thomas Jefferson, founding fathers idea, 4 july is intrinsically related to 14 juillet 1789...Today, even through that accurate criticism of imperialism /ambiguity /hypocrisy, World population, I guess, at least educated people, see a great separation between American People, illegal immigration included (because they are trying to bring the ideals into reality) and American Government, NSA, Homeland, etc. We see the first as fundamentally deserving respect, even admiration (homeless included) while Government and Lobbying, Healthcare, treatment of "alien" population, as close to expressly authoritative state that the line is, motivation of great concern, namely the Defence Budget, and also military industrial complex behaviour. As Deep State theory, it exists everywhere but not as we think, I suppose. Its like talking of free masonry without been a member or having direct knowledge. These are sketches of political science, sociology, social engineering and, truly, multidisciplinary studies, including international relations and politics and strategic planning... So, congratulations for another excellent answers, and take the long comment as is: opinion.

Are you threatening my qubits, sir? 🤔

1:01:11 Well, that was funny, i was just browsing the Just Eat site for some food and i was looking at my favorites, but decided to scroll down to look for alternatives, and that was exactly at the time when you said this, haha Although, i might still order from my favorites.. i do love me some good burgers. Tangent: It's kinda strange how often i have these coincidences, i frequently read a word while at the same time someone is saying that word, or something is happening while someone is narrating it, like you just did for me with the Just Eat site. Whenever i tell people about it, their response can range from "Okay", to "You should write the words down and see if there's a meaning behind it", and personally i think i am more in the middle of that, because i am not spiritual at all, but i do find them to be noteworthy coincidences, probably related to how our brains work, rather than some outside influence (obviously). It's like déjà vu, but real, haha. I did actually write some of the words down after my girlfriend at the time wanted me to do so, and i was kinda curious as well, but the first words from then on that had these coincidences were "69", "Sure", "Body", "Weapon" .. i mean, she was not happy with that, which i thought was funny. For her it didn't have any spiritual meaning anymore, because the words weren't the kind of vague spiritual stuff, and for me it was more of a confirmation that i had, it's just weird coincidences, stuff in our brains processing things and picking up on related cues while it is happening. When i wrote down the words, i also gave a quick description of the circumstances, like with the 69, i was actually thinking about the act, and while watching a Bill Maher show, a guest on his show said the number 69 out loud, and i literally went like: "Hah! No way!" And the Body word happened while i was playing a game and watching Dino Hunters, they were talking about finding the rest of the body, while at the same time the game gave me the option for where to hit the enemy mech and Body is the option that i read while i heard them say the word. And that's how it usually happens, doing 2 things at once definitely increases the chance for words to overlap, it just seems to happen quite often for me personally, and i it's probably just because i'm "hyper" aware of them now, for me it's about 3-4 times a week. I don't write them down anymore though, i pretty much quit after that bizarre first string of words, but just for fun, i wonder what fiction story i could've written by now by using those specific words, "Coincidence: The Story."

Sir I have question "why do we generally consider god as a male "? .....with love and respect from India

yes... the vision of a mediocre American, who doesn't know what imperialism is, and who doesn't even want to know and doesn't care... I really expected a more critical view from a scientist like you...