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Sean Carroll

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01 / belief

I think we are part of the physical world, the natural world. Physicalism would’ve been just as good a word to use as naturalism, maybe even a more accurate word but it’s a little bit more off-putting so I do want to snap your more attractive label than physicalism.

“I think we are part of the physical world, the natural world. Physicalism would’ve been just as good a word to use as naturalism, maybe even a more accurate word but it’s a little bit more off-putting so I do want to snap your more attractive label than physicalism.”
Speaker
Sean Carroll
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

02 / belief

I think that that’s a super important question that I can imagine making progress on, but right now I’m more or less maximally uncertain about what the answer is.

“I think that that’s a super important question that I can imagine making progress on, but right now I’m more or less maximally uncertain about what the answer is.”
Speaker
Sean Carroll
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

03 / belief

There’s one pitfall that I’ll just mention because there’s a move that is made in these theoretical edges of cosmology that I think is a little bit mistaken, which is to say I’m going to think about the universe on the basis of imagining that I am a typical observer.

“There’s one pitfall that I’ll just mention because there’s a move that is made in these theoretical edges of cosmology that I think is a little bit mistaken, which is to say I’m going to think about the universe on the basis of imagining that I am a typical observer.”
Speaker
Sean Carroll
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

06 / belief

I have no idea. But I think your intuition is right that it would’ve been easy for there to be lots of civilizations then we would’ve noticed them already and we haven’t.

“I have no idea. But I think your intuition is right that it would’ve been easy for there to be lots of civilizations then we would’ve noticed them already and we haven’t.”
Speaker
Sean Carroll
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

07 / belief

I think that there are colleagues of mine who think that we’re pretty close to figuring out how information gets out of black holes, how to quantize gravity, things like that.

“I think that there are colleagues of mine who think that we’re pretty close to figuring out how information gets out of black holes, how to quantize gravity, things like that.”
Speaker
Sean Carroll
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

09 / belief

I think the philosopher, David Chalmers, has done what I consider to be a good job of arguing that we should treat things that happen in virtual reality and in simulated realities as just as real as the reality that we experience.

“I think the philosopher, David Chalmers, has done what I consider to be a good job of arguing that we should treat things that happen in virtual reality and in simulated realities as just as real as the reality that we experience.”
Speaker
Sean Carroll
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

10 / belief

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.

“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.”
Speaker
Sean Carroll
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast
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