There's a lot of ideas that physicists have that can be productively applied to society in general, and democracy in particular. In fact, when i mentioned this to david crackouer, the current president of s f i, he said, "All you need to do is study everything the santa fe institute has ever produced" The other course i'll be teaching will be an upper level philosophy course on topics in philosophy of physics. We're all cover things like the arrow of time, in quanta, mechanics and cosmology from a philosophical point of view. So that should also be a lot of fun.
Welcome to the April 2022 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). I take the large number of questions asked by Patreons, whittle them down to a more manageable size — based primarily on whether I have anything interesting to say about them, not whether the questions themselves are good — and sometimes group them together if they are about a similar topic. Enjoy!
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