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AMA | March 2023

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Is It a Credible Threat to Democracy?

Igor Vellotich says Noam Chomsky said that science currently recognizes only two concepts, determinacy and randomness. Could you even grasp the possibility that there is anything that goes beyond those? I would like to take them very seriously because I think that democracy is good, all things being equal. The maximum entropy a region of space can contain is higher when the vacuum energy is lower. Decider space or an accelerating universe is characterized by a horizon.

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