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Sean Carroll: belief

22 Apr 2024 Lex Fridman Podcast #428 – Sean Carroll: General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Black Holes & Aliens

“I think that what we mean by aesthetics or morality are we’re attaching categories, properties to things that happen in the physical world and there is always going to be some subjectivity to our attachment and how we do that and that’s okay and, the faster we recognize that and deal with it, the better off we’ll be.”

— Sean Carroll

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Speaker
Sean Carroll
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
22 Apr 2024
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

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…But do you think that’s just because we don’t have a … The tools of science have not expanded enough to incorporate the human experience? No, I don’t think that’s what it is. I think that what we mean by aesthetics or morality are we’re attaching categories, properties to things that happen in the physical world and there is always going to be some subjectivity to our attachment and how we do that and that’s okay and, the faster we recognize that and deal with it, the better off we’ll be. But if we deeply and fully understand the function of the human mind, it won’t be able to incorporate that?…

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