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AMA | August 2023

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

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The Accepted View of the Core Theory of Physics

I'm not exactly sure what the question is to be honest or how best to answer it. I think that whenever you try to imagine what another person is going to do, you will inevitably oversimplify. You don't have enough room in your brain to accurately model many other people because their brains are also pretty complicated. So there's two issues when it comes to sort of being lost in thought. One is that your job is an intellectual job you know to come up with ideas and talk about them and test them and so forth. But earning a living at it absolutely means you got to do the work. There's nothing bad about that you know by all means spend your time thinking but

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