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AMA | June 2023

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

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The Cosmological Constant and the Anthropic Principle

The anthropic principle tells us we live in the part of the universe where it is small and allows for life to develop. Dennis Briggs says, I have your you are here t-shirt. It shows the low complexity with both low and high entropy. Andy Clark got me thinking if the brain utilizes a predictive algorithm to create our reality or not. Psychedelics appear to break down barriers between past and future.

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