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

AMA | November 2021

Nov 17, 2021

03:54:58

Highlights

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Episode notes

Zombis Are Conscious, but You Think You Can't Conceive of Zombies?

01:26

The Hard Problem Is Not Solved

02:06

The Hiddenness of the Symmetry

02:38

Introduction

2min

The Vidios - Introduction to Classical Physics

2min

Theoretical Physicists

3min

The Ask Me Anything Podcast

1min

Is There a Signal That Could Account for This?

3min

Changing the Laws of Physics to Give Rats Telepathy

3min

The Heisenberg Andserty Principle Is a Statement About Quantum State Relationships

2min

The Uncertainty Principle Is a Rotation of the Axis

3min

Effective Altruism and Long Termism

2min

10.

The Impossibility of Counting Lives and Experiences

3min

11.

Utilitarianism

2min

12.

Is There a Point O O One Chance That Humanity Will Go Extinct?

2min

13.

Is There Any Physics Prediction for What Existed Before the Big Bang?

4min

14.

Isn't It a Remarkable Coincident?

2min

15.

Is There a Selection Effect in the Space of All Possible Laws of Physics?

6min

16.

The Continuity of Per Identity

5min

17.

The Problem With Duplicating, Transporting, Teleporting Experiments

2min

18.

You Fooled the Robot in Room Two?

2min

19.

Why Am I Me?

4min

20.

The One Thing That Disconcerts Me a Little Bit

2min

21.

The Hard Question Is, Where Do You Draw Those Lines?

3min

22.

Is There a Balance Between Social Media and Free Speech Rights?

6min

23.

Do You Have a Dead End?

4min

24.

Is God a Good Theory?

6min

25.

The Cosmogical Expansion

2min

26.

Do You Prefer to Commute by Train or Car?

2min

27.

The Physics of Democracy

2min

28.

The Math of Democracy

4min

29.

Is There a Difference Between the Model and the Implementation?

2min

30.

The Biggest Ideas in the Universe, Video, Number 15, on Gauge Theory

5min

31.

How to Break Gauge Symmetry in Special Relativity

2min

32.

The Hiddenness of the Symmetry

3min

33.

The Impossibility of Imagining a Description

2min

34.

The Hard Problem Is Not Solved

2min

35.

Is Girdle Theorem Irrelevant for Science?

2min

36.

Who Cares About Girdle's Theorem?

3min

37.

Is There a Vested Interest in Modified Gravity?

2min

38.

Is the Acceleration of the Universe the Cosmogical Constant?

4min

39.

Complexity and Emergence - What's the Key Discovery?

3min

40.

Quantum Field Theory

3min

41.

Monday Dot Com Work OS - The Perfect Workflow for Your Team

5min

42.

The Pilot Wave Theories Are the Least Objectionable to Me

5min

43.

Is There a Red Shift?

4min

44.

Are You Kind and Generous When You're Academically Successful?

4min

45.

The Purpose of Harvard Is Not to Educate People

2min

46.

Laughter Is Awesome, but Really Weird

5min

47.

Is Gravitational Effects Local?

5min

48.

Nuclear Fusion Will Give Us More Power Than We Put In

2min

49.

Making New Friends in Your Thirties?

4min

50.

Is Reality a Consciousness Driven Digital Construction?

5min

51.

Is There a Thickness and Thinness in the Wave Function?

2min

52.

G R Predicts Divergences From Utonian Gravity

4min

53.

Is There a Black Hole in the Universe?

5min

54.

Accepting That You Have a Finite Life Spontaneity

1min

55.

Mac Weldon Daily War System - Get 20% Off Your First Order.

3min

56.

Is There an Experiment You Would Like to Conduct in Any Branch of Science?

1min

57.

Is It Worth It to Sometimes Grind to Get a New Level of Understanding?

2min

58.

Using Fibre Bundles in Physics and Mathematics

5min

59.

A Single Approach to the Laws of Physics

3min

60.

How to Find Success on the Podcast

3min

61.

How to Deal With Complex Topics in a Thoughtful Way

3min

62.

Trit - The Single Most Important Thing That You Have to Put Into Your Tool Box

3min

63.

Do You Think That Masculinity and Masculinity Need to Be Redefined?

3min

64.

Are You Trying Your Best According to Your Value System?

3min

65.

Philadelphia Is Just Normal, and Everyone Else Is Weird, Right?

1min

66.

Climate Change

5min

67.

Goat, Greatest of All Time Discussions in the Realm of Sports, Such as Basket Ball?

4min

68.

What Is Panpsychism?

2min

69.

The Zombi Argument for Physicalism

2min

70.

Zombis Are Conscious, but You Think You Can't Conceive of Zombies?

1min

71.

Consciousness in the Laws of Physics

3min

72.

Is There Evidence for Inflation?

5min

73.

The Anthropic Principle Is Not a Question

3min

74.

The Cosmogical Constant, the Vacuum Energy

2min

75.

Is There a Predictive Theory?

5min

76.

The Boltsman Brain Problem

4min

Welcome to the November 2021 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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