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

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Is It a Choice, or a Conscious Choice?

I like to work on problems that if i didn't work on them, nobody else would have done them. My theory of impact and science is that your impact is the at of what you can do in the enumerator to what everybody else does in the denominator. I try to look for thingsor intellectual arbitrages where i can see something i know in one field is similar to what happens in another field. One of those fields will be ahead of the other. So welever fild is ahead, take what it knows and apply it to the other field,. And so that sir. Visitors do this r all the time by anymeans. Are you ever going to write

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