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AMA | November 2023

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

CHAPTER

Struggling with Finding Happiness and Caring About Others

In this chapter, the speaker addresses a listener's question about the personal struggle of finding happiness while being aware of the suffering of others. They emphasize the importance of caring about the suffering of others while also not being overwhelmed by it, and discuss their own allocation of resources to various problems. The chapter also explores the philosophical question of the objectivity of math and its correspondence with our experience of the world.

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