Mindscape AMA, Sean Carroll | October 2021
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- Опубліковано 13 жов 2021
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Welcome to the October 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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Thank you Professor ! Have a nice day everybody :)
I love that people ask non physics questions like about love or marriage, and that Sean not only answers them but takes them seriously and always has great thoughtful answers.
so you are saying you find him adorable. ask me.
I have not at all yet listened to the whole podcast, but I LOVE them, keep em comming
Writing can help you draw attention to your favourite observations. You don't have to do it a lot. Just enough to jog your memory later. It's best when you've just learned that a previous understanding (that you've not written or read before) was inadequate
I watched Sean give a cosmology lecture, (on UA-cam) at The Perimeter Institute and during the Q&A afterwards a few, but 1 physicist in particular, was extremely rude to him. He stated that they were “above him.”
I get that Sean dabbled in a lot of different fields but for anyone to claim that they were superior to him was shocking, to say the least.
You could tell it rattled him, but his response was very diplomatic and reserved. He his such an amazing educator for us lay-people and armchair pseudo-intellectuals that he deserves respect. It’s not easy taking the most complicated aspects of reality and explaining them in ways anyone can understand. I’m sure it’s a lot of work that he doesn’t even have to do, but he does and that is very noble.
you he and he ; who are you talking about Sean or the student?
Sean is a very bright man, I used to follow him.. but I think he took an unsupportable position with his infinite splitting universes solution to the measurement problem... then I started to listen to him more critically and was put off by his ignorant comments about the president... based on what we now know was a great hoax. Nothing really significant has been discovered in quantum theory in over 40 years outside confirming a known field (Higgs) and the significance of dark energy.. the Large Hadron collider has discovered unlimited public and private funds for all things that sound cool and are ridiculously expensive.... but aside from the Higgs energy value..... it has been a complete bust. Sean Carroll at least has become a bit of a contrarian I suppose.. which is a good thing.
Sean’s cadence always calms the day, not often an easy result.😑
thank you sean. your books are amazing
Thank you Sean, once again, fascinating.
thanks for uploading these on youtube (:
I value the “Moving Naturalism Forward” series. Thank you for organizing them!!
Many worlds flies in all second order spaces where permutation sets can be defined.
Top notch content as always 👌👌👌
Thanks for doing mindscape on UA-cam - but I will try to watch (listen) on a podcast for future episodes.
As somebody as respected and profound as you are in the field of science..... why only 146k subscribers? you deserve a million+
Arrival is in a class by itself. I can't help but think Dr. Carroll would love it.
And there's an indirect connection: Stephen Wolfram was on a Mindcast and his son used Mathematica to simulate an attempt to decode the Alien language in the movie. The resulting graphics looked very realistic at least to me.
29:35 much appreciated in time for my philosophy exam
Question. Is self-awareness the 2nd dimension of time? We can learn and plan for a short term like characters on a page of a book , but not know the full story?
1:38:00 The clump in the void... the void is like a gravity Debye length?
I listen on youtube because it auto goes to some other similar things and I basically just listen through the entire day on this site. So I can find new info. I also subscribe on patreon but never listen there.
On listening on UA-cam vs another app: simply put, UA-cam is where most of my other podcasts or regular subscriptions live. The algorithm seems to know I listen to this every week and sticks it to the top of recommended. If this only lived on the website, I may not think to seek it out.
Get the popcorn ready.
Each kernel pops into a supernova
@@joepaige196 😂
I'm here to stare at the static screen for three hours! :D
you NEED to see Arrival Sean!!!
It's not necessarybfor causers to end causal chains. If the causer is responsible for something which uses the axiom of choice, then it can also be possible for the caused to mutate the causer.
I have so many questions, and look forward to the AMA vids so much hoping to hear my exact topic covered.
Questions:
-The original star materials that collapsed never went through the black hole event horizon is that matter information lost forever since it can't have been encoded?
-Sean what do you think the odds are that the Origin of our universe started from a singularity, and the odds that the center of a black hole is actually a singularity?
-Was there anything outside the spec of our universe before inflation?
-How could our universes size be infinite if it started as a defined spec sized thing, and simply inflated at different known speeds only 14billion years ago.
-How does information survive a black hole? I can see if there's a holographic imprint of all that ever fell in, but it is quantum wiped into hawking radiation that contains no information of the original thing that fell in?
-How are you enjoying your move and University affiliation switch?
Thanks!
My question is, what is a good intention? By who's standard?
To what extent are singularities just limits of formal languages? Like, are they just regions of spacetime where a particular formal regime is in effext? Godel complete languages shouldn't have any singularities, should they?
51:04 Sean's writing process (or lack of it).
A couple of years ago, I read every book I could on writing processes. Now I only take some inspiration from them (it is, indeed, a sort of "self-help" book genre), and mostly follow my own style - I just can't "freewrite" or, like Sean, begin chapter seven before having written chater six...
55:20:
Being a nerd about words:
‘Get Out’ is actually a “terror” film, which means it’s just about humans being bad people.
A “horror” film involves ghosts and goblins, etc.
Edit: ignore all the Reddit and Google posts: among filmmakers, Terror = humans; horror = monsters.
Hello Dear Professor Carroll.
Please schedule for interview with the Nobel laureate, Professor Parisi.
Thank you so much
1:59:00 i've been using lockdown to go out and take photos, i was surprised when they were a hit on instagram so i do this every day now, i listen while i run them through photoshop, i pop over to a visual youtube when i get bored (!) but if i'm working at my computer i want to listen to science while i work. i found the biggest ideas too mathsy for me, i'm an artist, and of course you have to watch the equations, which go over my head most of the time.
I would say that the reason the videos in the moving naturalism forward get fewer views than you expected is that it is a conversation which does not include the listener. Here you are taking to us, there people were talking to each other and we are eavesdropping. FWIW.
Sean - I might be a bit over the ten year period but I really enjoyed Inception and Time Traveler’s Wife. Both movies I watch again and again.
Time Traveler's Wife was fantastic, I also really enjoyed Her.
I found the concept of an easily calculable round cow most fetching..
Instantaneous consciousness is an illusion. When you get to very small time differences, it becomes increasingly difficult to say which event happened before the other. Different senses even have different degrees of time resolution. For instance hearing is far higher resolution than sight.
Ultimately our conscious experience is put together in the past, we live in the immediate past rather than the present.
We achieve what seems like a present by predicting what is most likely to happen in the immediate future.
This is the reason why it is difficult to predict the motion of a spinning object such as a tennis ball. We have learned to predict where an object should travel to based on a classical intuition of the physics of everyday life, when this is violated, our "present" can be revealed to be the simulation it actually
is.
This buffer is what allows the brain to stitch our reality together.
To the extent of my understanding anyway :)
Posting podcast episodes to UA-cam provides a place for community to interact in the comments.
I listened to this episode in a podcast app and then opened the episode on UA-cam to make this comment. If we only had the podcast feed we couldn’t do that.
I know that you must be busy but timestamps would be nice.
People can have their own beliefs but not their own facts, especially if policies that affect everyone depend on the agreement on the facts. What should be the deployed configuration of GPS satellites be if earth was round or flat. No?
BTW transporter 2:18:00 is just a screenplay device concocted by Gene Roddenberry so they didn't have to depict a 'tender' type of space craft to go to the planets. It's not really a thing - trust me. It's about as philosophical as the magic trick of sawing a lady in half. WHY it's always a lady is a far more interesting topic.
7:00 People who choose to sign the "Death do us apart" marriage contract should be forced to stay together no matter what! 😂
Sean's analysis of the reasons for the anti-science mood of recent years (starting at about 20:00) was very interesting, and I think, on point.
I agree Eric. Very well thought out and complete.
1:33:47 I thought Avril Lavigne asked a question here.
If we do seed life somewhere I can't help but feel like we owe a responsibility to said life. To protect it and nurture it, we would essentially be it's parents and would owe it the same as any child. Of course some people will disagree, we call them deadbeat parents. I've had far too much experience with those sorts of people and I'm not a fan.
my deposit in the sperm bank was widely shared
@@kevinwelsh7490 Congratulations. I'm sure that at no point in the future will some younger person show up with some questions for you.
The many worlds, inflation and multiverse theories make me feel as uncomfortable as the creation myth and god of the gaps. Looks like there’s nothing there beyond the standard model. Looking forward to James Webb’s results, but I why oh why aren’t we hearing about enhancing LIGO? Unless I’m missing something?
You need to watch upgrade 😬
I heard a contradiction. What people mean by what you deny as "essence" in the teleportation device, is exactly the same thing as what people mean when they talk about branching in many worlds. The difference between me in one world and another version of me in another world is precisely the essence I am worried about in a teleportation device. In fact if you proved many worlds I would take that as proof that teleporters just make a copy and kill me.
Good episode as always but I disagree about Sean's take on teaching creationism in schools issue. Scientists were not saying "don't teach creationism in schools", they were saying "don't teach creationism in science class". Big difference. Are churches, temples and mosques willing to teach evolution in Sunday schools and let the members make up their own mind? don't think so.
25:04 About the question "Why is there something rather than nothing?". Why do people with religious beliefs have trouble accepting that the universe could exist without a cause yet happily embrace the idea that God exists without a cause. Answer: because they believe that God is an incomprehensible mystery, implying that the question is not answerable, which, funnily enough, is exactly what Sean said.
That’s when I drop the fallacy of “special pleading” on them. “My god is eternal, infinite, no beginning, no end.” NnnnnK🙄
The anti-science voices are loud and emboldened of late, as is true with bullying and rudeness in general, but I doubt that their percentage of the whole has expanded much. One thing is sure, to the extent that there is one, the "war" on science will have no winners.
Dr.Fauci has created many anti_science sceptics.
@@doctorsloth213 See I would have said Trump, funny how that works.
@@Rattus-Norvegicus I would trust Trump long before Fauci.
Fake news not fake science
@@doctorsloth213 Of course you would, lots of people have trusted Trump. Some are dead and a bunch are either disgraced or in jail. Some are broke because he never paid them, a handful have wisened up and spoke out against him. Most of them will never trust him again.
@@Rattus-Norvegicus
You are talking about Sleepy Joe are you not.
Go away troll, you are just a rusted on ignorant supporter .
@Sean Carroll Would you be open to a thoughtful discussion with Dr. Hugh Ross? I have confirmed that he would be open to having one with you. I know you have opposing views on many topics, but I would be very interested in both of you interacting on the details and nuts and bolts of subjects such as the perceived fine-tuning of the universe. It seems from a lecture I watched of yours you state clearly that the billions of galaxies in the universe along with several other things are completely unnecessary for the existence of human beings. He states quite the opposite. I would enjoy hearing you both defend these positions.
lol
I don’t know anything but I believe the scientific method is the most honest. H=H honesty equals humor... the ability to laugh at yourself.
Tankyo Shawn. May we offer scienceman big anser your big question.
We got it
Game Theory shows to an extent Morality is objective just not black and white!
Please stop saying “okay?” after stating a fact.
It's time for Dr. Chanda Prescode Weinstein.
///Psalm 2:1-5
//Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.
Luke 12:56 (KJV)
***Ye hypocrites***, ye can discern the face of the sky and of the earth; but how is it that ye do not discern this time?
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Matthew 24:39 ^
And they had no care till the waters came and took them all away; so will be the coming of the Son of man.
***¡¡¡REPENT!!!***.COME INTO THE ARK, YOU ARE ON TIME MY FRIEND: THERE IS STILL PLACE. MARANATHA !!!
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P.S: 1 Corinthians 2:9 But as it is written: “Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him.”
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***THIS IS A FATHER'S PROMISE***: JJohn 14:23: Jesus answered and said unto him, “If a man love Me, he will keep My words; and My Father will love him, and We will come unto him and make Our abode with him.///