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AMA | November 2022
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
What Makes Someone an Intellectual?
In a previous AMA, you said that living in search of truth is what makes someone an intellectual. Does that mean QAnon conspiracy theorists are intellectuals? You might demand that as part of your definition of what it means to be intellectual. We want logicians and mathematicians to be intellectuals even though they don't use the scientific method. But you do want to be able to understand that you've made a mistake.
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