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AMA | December 2022

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

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Is There a Positive Way Out of This?

We don't have good health care and things like that in the United States anyway. And this builds up resentment. It builds up dislike of the system. So they're more likely to overthrow the institutions or not to respect them. Do I see a positive way out of this? I'm honestly not sure. To me, this is absolutely uncertainty. You know, human beings are mostly themselves at a more or less constant entropy. There's many, many, many things in the universe that are making way more entropy than you are. Like the sun. The sun radiating out into space does enormously more to increase the entropy of the universe than every human being who ever existed in total.

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