Welcome to the Psychology Podcast, where we give you insights into the mind, brain, behavior, and creativity.

I'm Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman, and in each episode I have a conversation with a guest

who will stimulate your mind and give you a greater understanding of yourself, others, and the world we live in.

Hopefully we'll also provide a glimpse into human possibility.

Thanks for listening and on the podcast. Dr.

Carol is a theoretical physicist at the California Institute of Technology.

Recently, Carol has worked on the Foundation of Quantum Mechanics,

the Arrow of Time, and the emergence of complexity.

He has been awarded prizes and fellowships by the National Science Foundation,

NASA, he offered Peacefuleland Foundation, among others.

Dr. Carroll has given a TED Talk on the Multiverse that has more than 1.5 million views, and he has participated in a number of well-attended public debates concerning material in his latest book which is called The Big Picture on

the origins of life, meaning, and the universe itself.

Sean, so great to chat with you today.

Thanks for having me on, Scott.

Yeah, I've been really looking forward to this chat.

My whole life I've been deeply plagued by these existential issues and it's so exciting to finally

talk to someone who kind of tell me what the probabilities are about these things actually, you know, without me having to have no priors whatsoever as I'm just like laying in bed thinking about this stuff.

You know, it's very interesting to me how few physicists worry about this stuff like really

part of it is just that we're trained not to talk about these things right yeah

by these things I mean like what if the universe didn't exist? Why does it exist at all, right?

I talk about this a little bit in the book that I'm writing right now about quantum mechanics,

but we are really trained to solve tangible, specific, put your finger on them problems

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