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AMA | July 2022

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

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Is There a Yes or No Question?

An omniscient super being gives you one, and only one question about the true physical nature of the universe. But without knowing how the world works at the fundamental level, we don't even know which questions to ask. There's just a pattern that is unbreakable and perfectly reversible from past future according to our best current understanding. The arrows and causality only come about in the microscopic, emergent world.

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