AMA | February 2023
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Sean Carroll | Wondery
4.8 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2023
⏱️ 188 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to the February 2023 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). We take questions asked by Patreons, whittle them down to a more manageable number — 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 February 2023 ASME Anything edition of the Mindscape Podcast. |
| 0:05.3 | I'm your host Sean Carroll. As usual, we skipped January, |
| 0:09.5 | ASME Anything, so we've accumulated quite a bunch of questions here for the February one. |
| 0:14.8 | I had to be a little severe, a little harsh in cutting down the questions to a reasonable size, |
| 0:19.7 | so I do apologize to all the people who ask perfectly good questions who are going to get ignored. |
| 0:24.0 | The other thing to mention is that we've been doing the AMAs for a while now, and as a result, |
| 0:29.6 | there are questions that I've answered more than once, or very, very similar questions. |
| 0:35.4 | And I'm torn by this, because on the one hand, not everyone has listened to every single AMA, |
| 0:40.4 | or was not there in the early days. On the other hand, the people who are don't want to hear |
| 0:44.9 | the same discussion over and over again, so I kind of pick and choose. If there's a question |
| 0:49.2 | that I'm pretty sure I've talked about before, I will be less likely to answer it, but if there's |
| 0:54.5 | something I can say that might be newer, interesting, or whatever, then I will nevertheless |
| 0:58.5 | consider it. So don't be completely discouraged from doing that. I do have one piece of very good |
| 1:04.6 | news to share with everyone. You might remember that we had a scholarship competition at bold.org. |
| 1:11.8 | You can see what was going on there at bold.org slash scholarships slash mindscape. We had the |
| 1:19.2 | mindscape big picture scholarships, which give $10,000 to the winners to help defray the costs |
| 1:28.0 | of going to college and studying something in science or philosophy or math or whatever it is |
| 1:33.7 | that constitutes thinking about the biggest ideas in the universe broadly speaking. And I was |
| 1:40.6 | very happy that we raised so much money for this that we were able to give to $10,000 scholarships |
| 1:46.4 | and we've chosen the winners. And I'm very, very happy to announce that the winners are incredibly |
| 1:51.8 | deserving students who are in high school now. We'll be going to college. One is Raymond Hassan, |
| 1:57.7 | who wants to be studying biophysical sciences, different kinds of biology. It's both students are |
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