AMA | June 2026
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Sean Carroll
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🗓️ 1 June 2026
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Summary
Welcome to the June 2026 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!
Blog post with AMA questions and transcript: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026/06/01/ama-june-2026/
New paper I talk about in the beginning of the episode:
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone. |
| 0:01.1 | Welcome to the June, 26, Ask Me Anything, edition of the Mindscape podcast. |
| 0:05.3 | I'm your host, Sean Carroll. |
| 0:07.4 | So I don't know whether this is percoling into other parts of the world. |
| 0:10.9 | Probably it is. |
| 0:11.8 | But here in the United States, one of the many, many news stories going on. |
| 0:16.7 | It's a news-rich environment these days. |
| 0:18.9 | You have to at least say that. |
| 0:20.6 | One of the many stories is that senior officials, senior elite members of our governing classes, both literally in government and in industry, have been picking fights with the Pope. |
| 0:35.4 | With our new Pope, Pope Leo 14. |
| 0:39.7 | He's an American Pope from Chicago, first ever American Pope. |
| 0:44.1 | But he's liberal in various of his inclinations. |
| 0:48.0 | Not 100% so. |
| 0:49.8 | Like, you know, there's always going to be the case that the Pope is Catholic, right? |
| 0:54.1 | The Pope is going to |
| 0:54.7 | agree with a lot of parts of doctrine that the Catholic Church likes to promulgate, and some of those |
| 0:59.7 | will not quite count as liberal. Some will. It's all very confusing, and it's all constructed |
| 1:03.5 | by human beings, not actually given by God, but so be it. The Pope has been pushing back on |
| 1:09.9 | various aspects of modern technology and governance. |
| 1:14.4 | You know, he has noticed that you should be nice to immigrants as part of what Jesus |
| 1:19.9 | preaches in the New Testament in the Gospels. And yet, there are people who claim to be |
| 1:25.2 | following Jesus' teachings who are not really very kind to immigrants. |
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