AMA | December 2021
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Sean Carroll
4.7 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2021
⏱️ 218 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to the December 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. Note that there will be no January AMA, for purposes of a holiday break. Enjoy!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone, welcome to the December 2021, ask me anything episode of the Mindscape podcast. |
| 0:05.9 | I'm your host Sean Carroll. The podcast episode is being released a little bit before December |
| 0:11.5 | comes along because it's the Thanksgiving holiday here in the United States. So I'll be traveling |
| 0:16.4 | for that and then traveling for workshop directly afterward. I wanted to get to your AMA questions |
| 0:21.2 | before I started traveling rather than waiting until afterward. So you know that or longtime |
| 0:28.2 | listeners know that I do take vacation for real over the Christmas holidays, slash New Year's |
| 0:34.3 | holidays. So there's two weeks when I will not have a real podcast episode and I will try to do a |
| 0:41.2 | holiday message, short brief, you know, thanking everyone for their support kind of thing just before |
| 0:47.3 | the holidays. And there will be no ask me anything episode for January. So no ask me anything |
| 0:53.2 | episode with questions asked at the end of December answers given at the beginning of January. So |
| 0:58.2 | this is it. This is the last ask me anything episode for this year. The next call will be near |
| 1:03.2 | the end of January. Again, those of you who are longtime listeners know if you want to ask a question |
| 1:08.9 | for the ask me anything episode, the important thing is to support Mindscape on Patreon. You can go |
| 1:14.3 | to patreon.com slash Sean M Carroll and you sign up there, dollar or whatever you want per episode |
| 1:21.0 | of Mindscape will get you both ad free versions of the podcast as well as the ability to ask questions |
| 1:28.5 | for the monthly ask me anything episodes. It used to be back in the old days when it was just a few |
| 1:33.0 | of us around the fire that everyone who asked a question got it answered. We've grown since then |
| 1:38.9 | can't be quite the same anymore, but I do try to pick the best questions in terms of things I can |
| 1:43.6 | give interesting answers to do not feel bad. If you ask a question that I don't get around to it, |
| 1:49.5 | it's me, it's not you, don't worry about it. The other thing of course is I'd like to remind people |
| 1:55.1 | we have a webpage for the podcast for postressuniverse.com slash podcast and all the Mindscape episodes |
| 2:04.0 | are there. You can search them. There's a wonderful little search tool. You can search not only |
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