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AMA | February 2024

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

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Exploring Existence and Values in a Multi-Universal Context

This chapter examines the philosophical and scientific implications of existence across multiple universes, focusing on moral agency and the importance of weighing individual experiences. It discusses cosmic strings, superdeterminism in quantum mechanics, and the evolving landscape of social media platforms, including a comparison of user experiences. Additionally, it emphasizes the nature of values, particularly in relation to artificial intelligence, critiquing simplistic interpretations of preferences as reflective of genuine human motivations.

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