AMA | August 2021

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

Sean Carroll | Wondery

Society & Culture, Physics, Philosophy, Science, Ideas, Society

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🗓️ 12 August 2021

⏱️ 191 minutes

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Welcome to the August 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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0:00.0	Hello everyone, welcome to the Mindscape Podcast, the August 2021 Ask Me Anything
0:05.2	Episode. I'm your host, Sean Carroll. You know how this works probably by now? It's an
0:10.4	Ask Me Anything, so people write questions, and I do my best to answer them. The people who get
0:16.3	to answer the questions are Patreon supporters. So if you want to be part of the question asking
0:21.9	brigade, just join up at patreon.com slash Sean M. Carroll. Not that expensive, and you get not
0:28.7	only the right to ask questions every month for the AMAs, but also you get ad free versions of
0:33.2	the podcast and a feeling of well-being for supporting something good and being a member of a community.
0:38.9	Now, as we've said before, the number of questions has grown fairly large, so we cannot answer all of
0:45.9	them, but I go through and I try to figure out which ones I have interesting things to say about.
0:50.9	So again, if you don't get your question answered not necessarily because your question wasn't good,
0:55.2	it just didn't vibe or resonate with what I had to say in this particular day. So I hope everyone's
1:00.9	doing well. We're in the middle of the summer post 2020, so the first summer that should be post
1:06.9	pandemic, but we're not post pandemic because many people have not gotten vaccinated yet, and therefore
1:12.3	we're still in the middle of a pandemic. And I hope that it doesn't get worse, but as long as we
1:18.0	haven't vaccinated the whole world, there's still plenty of opportunities for the virus to mutate.
1:23.0	We already have the Delta variant and other things, and rather than just getting rid of this virus,
1:27.4	we're sort of letting it flip from person to person because we don't want to, as a society,
1:32.5	take the necessary steps to fix it. This makes me very sad. But nevertheless,
1:37.6	several months ago I decided I was just going to be optimistic about this, and therefore I've made
1:41.5	travel plans. So tomorrow, as I record this AMA episode, it will be the first time I go to the
1:48.7	airport to step on an airplane in roughly a year and a half. So we'll see how that goes. I'm going
1:53.8	to Santa Fe to go to the Santa Fe Institute where I am now officially a fractal faculty member.
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