Mindscape AMA, Sean Carroll | November 2021

[@tungstikum]

The "biggest ideas in the universe" series was truly amazing. Thank you!

[@sigzil1985]

It really is the best series of science videos on the internet. Even though I couldn't follow along with along of it, I still absolutely loved it. I will be buying the books for sure.

[@jonnymohawk]

I was watching this late last night and I appreciated the importance and theory of it. I fell asleep and experienced the grandeur of it!

[@hanzhang6187]

A 4 hour AMA - what a gift! Thank you Prof. Carroll!

[@jps0117]

I look forward to all of Sean's uploads, but unfortunately I don't have 4 hours for anybody's AMA :(

[@pieterfoster10]

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[@anom3778]

Sean carrol is one of the most interesting to listen to. He just seems so genuine.

[@BlinkyCops]

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[@wmpx34]

He’s extremely open-minded while still holding strong, evidence-based views. That’s an exceedingly rare trait in any human

[@madsnipergodonxbox9559]

I fell asleep with KZbin on. And woke up on this video. How interesting imma need to rewatch it.

[@chunglee7531]

Sir: just one question: Neuroscientists find there are bundle of neurons that have aromatic rings with many pi electrons. They suspect these pi electrons may be the source for our conscience . Could you speculate , when we die, what happen to those pi electrons or information they carry?

[@tommygrandefors9691]

I wait for the AMA every month. It's the true highligt for me in the world of pod casts. Giving almost four hours of this excellent insights and knowledge doesn't make ot worse, trust me. Christmas once every month, except for December of course, haha. Thank you very much for this. 🙏🏻

[@jeffhogueison1656]

I can tell from listening to Sean Carroll how quite intelligent and precise in his thinking he is! 😊

[@Xen2288]

I love these videos so much, especially the AMA. Thank you for continuing to do these!

[@m.gaiolas457]

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[@robotaholic]

I love everything about Sean Carroll. You are so good at explaining, and I love cats too, the max. Your obliteration of fine tuning with WLac will stick with me the rest f my life. You utterly well.. you won.

[@20deoctubre]

Definitely getting these new series of books

[@johnjoseph9823]

can't wait for these books to come out. thanks Sean

[@dunuth]

1 month now, I think

[@CorwynGC]

No mathematician ever worries about Gödel's theorem either (in my experience). It puts no limits on actual results, just the theoretical extent of ALL results.

[@origins7298]

It does put limits on actual, the limit that no complex system can be complete and consistent,....

[@origins7298]

It does put limits on actual, the limit that no complex system can be complete and consistent,....

[@josephrittenhouse5839]

I like the "self undermining argument" reasoning. I've noticed it before, where people insist something is true even when the reasoning which lends it proof undermines its own reason. I've always called it an argument into nihilism, as nihilism (existential nihilism) suffers the same flaw.

[@Metameinitiatedbycontact]

Why am I always able to do physics with Sean in the Astral when I sleep listen to mindscape? Im not in astral college with every selected podcast for sleep?

[@bradfordjhart]

I live in Boston, awesome to have you with us!

[@zbyszekz77]

1:29:44 gluons are not massless? I thought they are.

[@ratbullkan]

Finding the correlates of qualia would give valuable hints as to what role they might play in physics but may or may not be a sufficient explanation in itself, depending on what you might regard as sufficient. It would be analog to the Schroedinger wave function, you could find uses for technology and make predictions, and still be oblivious to its underlying physics. However it would enable us to hypothesize beings capable of feeling&experiencing wherever else these correlates appear.

[@ratbullkan]

You say in order to explain qualia you either have to change the known laws of physics or have sonething additional in your ontology which can't have any effect of its own. Changing the current laws would be absurd but I claim there can be a notion of qualia influencing our behaviour and therefore translating into physical forces by friction with our brains or whatever. They might be new unknown physical forces of their own which doesn't have to be fundamentally emergent, or they might be reducable to known forces. For all we know, the range of plausible explanations is vast. Contemporary Naturalists who are betting the Hard Problem would kind of evaporate in emergence should be taken very seriously, but also might as well be subject to their own expertise fallacies.

[@whoopshoopadoop8900]

I agree that it's not a good idea to mix God with science in the sense that u don't want to end a scientific paper with a "the particles collide and produce X cuz of God" but u can certainly say that God is behind whatever mechanism you're explaining. In other words, its very easy to be a man or woman of faith but allow for the full depth exploration of God's wonder that is our reality.

[@AndreAmorim-AA]

I just need your signed book when you come to visit London again?

[@thecorneliusexperience]

I woke up to this at 3:23:38

[@usmanmehmood7077]

I woke up after it was finished.

[@naturalisted1714]

Hi Sean, could you please put timestamps in the description? Thank you!

[@3dlabs99]

Click on the 2nd link in the description... Full transcript with timestamps.

[@_tgwilson_]

"Biggest Ideas in the Universe" is brilliant! This is a fantastic idea and I will certainly pick up all three.

[@michaelblacktree]

I lost my best friend in december 2021. We were good friends for about 35 years. That was rough. I still keep in touch with his family. The only advice I can give is, don't let it shut you down. You'll have to go through the grieving process, but don't let it consume your life.

[@Angular777]

This comes down to probabalistic vs deterministic nature of reality which we don't know enough about, but I would say that our minds and experiences are seemingly deterministic, but what causes a neuron to fire? A buildup of sodium ions , and at that scale the probabilistic nature of atoms might take hold. So it's unknown whether the universe is probabalistic or deterministic and in the words of one of my favorite robots: "need more input".

[@mikaelfloden151]

The hard question with free speech in todays social media is not where to draw the line. It's who get to draw the line. Twitter can ban any politician in the world and may (by doing so) even change the outcome of an foreign election. The hard question is not discussing where the line should be, it's who get to decide where to actually draw it.

[@wesleysmith5275]

Sean mentioned that briefly but didn't seem to emphasize your point which is correct. In terms of censorship; the thing you do to prevent something could be the thing that causes it. I say allow the court of public opinion to discern what is good and leave the rest with the chaff.

[@HarryNicNicholas]

1:10:00 we had rescue cats, stoli and boli, stoli would never leave me alone and i would get scratched to pieces, boli was always getting locked up in he postal sortng office opposite our house. we had a "cat bridge" for them to go from the window to the outside.

[@wesleysmith5275]

Stromboli

[@kx4532]

Partial derivatives treat the other variables as constants.

[@calvingrondahl1011]

I read Something Deeply Hidden. I appreciate how you reduce stress in science.

[@HarryNicNicholas]

1:58:00 i'm an artist, albeit a graphic designer, but our art room at school was more like a civics class than the civics class, we played music, the beatles, hendrix, who, beefheart - you name it, and we had discussed psychedelics, even though we were only 15 or so, so, when i got the chance i tried LSD, my friend who was the supplier was into art and meditation and all things transendental, and i was just curious as to how it might effect my art. it affected my art not at all, i was not better or worse, no more imaginative, about the onlt difference i could report is vividness of colours and the geometry of shapes, and the beginnings of what became severe paranoia. i have to say i am known for being "grounded" mt feet firmly on the tarmac, so things i hallucinated always had a base in reality, no desire to fly, no visions of ggod.

[@NaneuxPeeBrane]

This is me on DMT! but i dont think LSd is 'supposed' to affect your art in any way.

[@DrDress]

Start here: 49:37

[@wrecksricardus4911]

Great idea .... BUT, how does one "unask a question"? Forget it, I unask!

[@captainzappbrannagan]

I hereby grant Sean the permission to be overtly snarky. No future excuses required. Love these AMA's and the honesty here. I still want to see a debate with Sabine on the big points of disagreement, and a return to fighting religion and it's dogma in debates. Thanks again Sean :)

[@GatorDunnAZ]

If the premise of the “rat learning” question is valid and if you accept that we are likely living in a universal simulation, then it follows that code and state might get reused for lower order systems/simulations for the purpose of efficiency and reduced complexity. It might also have implications for the fidelity of the simulation we’re in as a reflection of how many layers of nested simulation there are above our reality. Or rats are magic. 🤷

[@symmetrie_bruch]

30:58 what a weird answer. so the obervables are discreet but not the underlying reality? what does that even mean? the obersables are the reality aren´t they? you seem suprised by this suggestion that quantum theory could somehow be thought of as digital/discreet when that´s what the whole theory is about isn´t it? i mean it´s in the name,; quantum. are you saying that time, in the "underlying reality", between 0 and 10−44 senconds, is continous? if you are, wouldn´t that have to happen faster than light ? i´m sorry but either i´m fundmentally misunderstanding your answer here, or you´re findamentally misunderstanding the question. i hope some of you good people can enlighten me on that.

[@freyc1]

Many things seem to be perfectly continuous, in quantum mechanics. The name of a theory isn't the whole theory. In particular, quantum physics gives no reason to believe that time or space would be discreet. That doesn't mean it's not the case, but quantum mechanics does not give any hint that it is.

[@symmetrie_bruch]

@@freyc1 never said it was. my point was it´s in the name so it would be odd if it was complete nonsense. that energy can only be given off in dicreet quanta is kinda important to the theory. it gives no reason/hint to believe space would be discreet? have you heard of the planck length? what else would you call that?

[@freyc1]

@@symmetrie_bruch The Planck length is not a quantification of space itself or of distances. I have no idea where you got that idea from, but it is plainly wrong.

[@symmetrie_bruch]

@@freyc1 sure length has absolutely nothing to do with distances, makes perfect sense

[@freyc1]

@@symmetrie_bruch Do you understand English? The Planck length (not length) has nothing to do with a quantization of distances (not with distances). I mean, before you speculate about it, you could at least read the Wikipedia article about the Planck length, for a start...

[@roberthuff3122]

Is mathematics, the foundation of physics, discoverable or created?

[@missh1774]

If I could have another baby, I would play these "ask me anything" videos as soothing baby bedtime sounds.

[@rollingrock3480]

Love your podcast Dr. Carroll!

[@davidfisher6356]

I enjoyed the question about how you commute, and could really relate to how you answered. I find London has the best public transport of any major city that I have frequented. Although paradoxically, it is rather bothersome that it is widely regarded to be the stabbing crime capital of the Western Hemisphere. I could go into how this can be a problem for the service user/potential victim, but it is subject to change due to being further offset daily at the rising prices of fossil fuels. I defer to comment further on the matter at this point. Also I suggest you invest in grain.

[@TetonGemWorks]

SHUT AND TAKE MY MONEY!!!!! Love the videos. I struggle a bunch to keep up. I could not keep up, but enjoy trying.

[@peterskove3476]

Rats have spies everywhere, and word travels fast. Some rats chewed into my trailer, then chewed through the propane line, I barely got to it in time. An obvious attempt at a hit. A few days earlier I had killed a mouse as a last resort because he kept coming back . But I left the body where it could be seen. Clearly it was a Made Mouse I killed.

[@DaKoopaKing]

It's actually totally legal to shout fire in a crowded theater. Brandenburg v. Ohio restricted bans on free speech to "that which would be directed to and likely to incite imminent lawless action "

[@88mphDrBrown]

I would think that would still qualify because your actions are still likely to cause injury and or death.

[@DunHan-cj1og]

Go back and read Brandenburg again, you are misremembering the holding.

[@Corvaire]

Oh! I'm in Boston. If you want to know how the Quantum realm and Universe actually works, let me know and have a white board handy (I hate chalk.)

[@ArminBadboy-r2p]

I think you forgot Persian empire is older and stronger and we had turkey between the Persian empire and the Roman Empire Your country was The battlefield of superpowers

[@bryandraughn9830]

On the question about laughter, it does seem weird that the thing besides humor that causes laughter, is discovery.

[@LinGLong780]

How does someone without academic connections submit a hypothesis?

[@chemquests]

Submit an article to a journal to be peer reviewed. If you can make a case, it might get published. The harder part is to get other labs to do experiments to verify your hypothesis. Usually you need your own lab to build the influence.

[@slobodansimonovic]

Great work (Mindset; The biggest ideas in the universe; ...). Enjoying it emensly. Thank you. Have a trivial question on logistical arrangements for your KZbin videos. Shown notes, video setup, background. Is there a chance you can share information on that? Thank you in advance.

[@Corvaire]

Center of our galaxy, not universe (when talking about black holes.)

[@rajeevgangal542]

Wish the best for this attempt at explaining stuff while detailing maths. Penrose's books I bought but frankly were outside my pay grade. Hope chapter 2-8 journey will be easier with your storytelling and explanations.

[@bryandraughn9830]

I think a zombie would be conscious, just so it could have the ability to "act just like a person." But, it wouldn't have an identity built on it's conscious experience. The 'self' that is invented, thinks that it IS consciousness. It is not. The very idea of a "zombie" is yet another example of how often we jump past the issue of an identity. I can't be the only one who is noticing this tendency to confuse consciousness with the identity of the self. They are two separate things. A cat is conscious. It's aware of it's position and will protect itself, etc... but I'm not convinced that it creates a "me" or "I" the way that humans do. Maybe the confusion is a result of the process where the human will create an identity and then believe that it's the identity that's conscious. There's a lot more about the concept of the self that is overlooked. When you experience your first few heartbeats for example, there is no "you" doing the experiencing, yet. Only an organism that is begining to create a self. "I have experienced a few heartbeats"

[@DogsaladSalad]

You do NOT have the best kitties in the world!!!! My kitty is the best!

[@BrianFedirko]

Trying LSD once is like trying the trumpet once. Of course you can write down theoretical equations and figure out physics problems while on it. It takes some time to get used to thinking "without the filters" so to say. Once you've learned how to use the instrument, you don't need to keep taking it, but it can help to learn.

[@dimitrispapadimitriou5622]

Thank you!

[@OBGynKenobi]

If humanity goes extinct, what damage is done other than to humanity? I think other animals would think that's a good thing.

[@chemquests]

I consider our extinction as inevitable and it doesn’t bother me. There’s no particular reason we should persist if we can’t find an equilibrium strategy with the world. Looks like we abhor equilibrium & have a drive for continuous change, as a species. That’s an unsustainable strategy. Keep in mind that we haven’t been around very long & we inhabit many ecosystems using different strategies. It seems most likely certain strategies persist & are selected.

[@justinmeader]

I wish I could come hang out with Sean in Boston for a day, honestly. I feel like I could learn so much!

[@madderhat5852]

Emperor Rat -" Ha, our mind control ray works on the human Seancarroll. Tonight we strike"

[@travisfitzwater8093]

It's not the academic grind it is the grind of Chimpanity.

[@chanpol321]

"Utilitarianism Utilitarianism is a family of normative ethical theories that prescribe actions that maximize happiness and well-being for all affected individuals. Although different varieties of utilitarianism admit different characterizations, the basic idea behind all of them is to in some sense maximize utility, which is often defined in terms of well-being or related concepts. For instance, Jeremy Bentham, the founder of utilitarianism, described utility as "that property in any object, whereby it tends to produce benefit, advantage, pleasure, good, or happiness...[or] to prevent the happening of mischief, pain, evil, or unhappiness to the party whose interest is considered." Wikipedia

[@daltontinoco7084]

How did you get where you are? I've just graduated with my physics B.S. but feel where you are at is far out of my reach.

[@travisfitzwater8093]

Guage Theory, Guage Symmetry, Tensor Calculus

[@DeclanMBrennan]

1:13:02 "We clearly have the best kitties in the world." Scientific bias is something to vehemently strive against but feline bias is a completely different story. :-)

[@petermaardananders6803]

The relative special relavance is entropic LOL

[@doracianfarra1574]

3:07:16 - Emotions as we are humans, is only natural to react in the need to express ourselves. Learning how to better to react is the true intention of our hearts. This comes with the level of maturity of course. Emotional Intelligence levels there are 3 in my book. Emotional babies - discovering all emotions, Emotional Toddlers - 'gimme hands' and Emotional Adults. Most of the world I say, are in the stage of emotional toddlers, the one for babies ..it is pretty much understood. Emotional toddlers in the stage of dealing with negative emotions. Learning how to understand what they feel and why they feel, needs always to be self improvement in their chosen reason. Emotional Adults are the ones who have rose above the fears, jealousies and insecurities. That does not say though we have grown into how to word it right. It is a skill of emotional emoting or attitude towards another we choose to practice to want to be better. (I better stop here since it is 4am in the morning when I woke up to your voice talking in my 'red'' dream lmao. Fell asleep while watching a show lol. ) Good night everyone.

[@myshow667]

"persnickety" one of my fave words. When i buy a disctionary its one of my go to words to check and see how good it is.

[@riodasperolas]

I can’t wait for your new book(s) , ‘cause I did follow your you tube original videos and would like to try to go a bit deeper on the geometry of Spacetime and black holes. Look forward for the launch.

[@Lord_Flashheart_Woof]

1:57:00

[@charastone4984]

If we play the telepathy among rats game, a dog searching for people must be doing things by telepathy too...right? Right? There's a very strong hint here.

[@onseayu]

ok, but can we agree that wilt chamberin was probaby the greatest athlete of all time?

[@Ashley389100]

Interesting as always

[@grawl69]

How come there are 147K subscribers here and not 1M at least.

[@wesleysmith5275]

just like what came before the big bang you are not allowed to ask these questions

[@delightfulBeverage]

If Sean Carroll thinks he has no right to shout "FIRE" in a crowded theatre, and, assuming Sean Carroll doesn't understand spoken Cantonese, he permits Cantonese speakers to shout 火 in crowded theatres, then he grants a freedom to others that he denies himself.

[@wesleysmith5275]

slightly reductionist but I see your point. +1

[@davidseed2939]

counsciousness driven digital simulation. is a merger of 1.God the creator 2. Pascal's daemon 3. computer simulations exprapolated from interactive games. No body takes these ideas seriously because the ideais untestable. black holes, einstein rings dark matter., hu ble constamt are tjings whoch cam be preficted. and tested by mainstream sciemce. but your notion predicts notjing so is not wprtj discussing.

[@Stephenweeksesq]

Ğ

[@wmpx34]

Don’t we do that all the time? For example, until very recently, women in the United States had been granted the right to have an abortion by a Supreme Court consisting of men, who could not grant the same right to themselves (for obvious reasons). The real question is whether there is a critical mass of Chinese-speaking members in the theater audience, such that a stampede resulting in injury could develop if someone shouts in Chinese. Somewhat of a hidden assumption there, perhaps.

[@joegibbskins]

Does Sean Carroll think he has NO right? He’d probably allow himself to yell it if there was fire in the theatre. The point about a Cantonese speaker being able to yell it doesn’t really hold because it is not the word that Carroll wouldn’t allow himself to say, it’s the incident that saying it would insight. Presumably Carroll could himself learn the Cantonese word for fire and yell it in a crowded theatre without an issue or almost any non-English word for “fire” in North America.

[@laxr5rs]

FOUR hours? Yikes! Listening starts NOW!

[@TJ-hs1qm]

2:10:24 unf. this also tends to be true for known sexual predator's

[@abudawud-r9k]

I like it ❤❤❤❤❤

[@denalozecon9074]

I like the idea that possibly the Big Bang was no big deal; that the same thing has happened so many times that "Another Big Bang is nothing unusual" So the point is not how large such an occurrence is, but that it is about as probable as many common and smaller events people would ignore because they are common. There is no point to say exactly what Sean Carroll did; if he says something I would not be better at making that point. Still it is an interesting possibility; if someone like Dr Who or someone else who can travel between Universes easily? Such a person would probably consider Big Bangs as some huge number; X? Big Bangs per ? volume of the 11 Dimensional Brane that contains '3D( + time) Universes' I make no claim to know of any other Universes or that they exist as a fact, still depending on how you define the word 'Universe' it seems probable to me. At the minimum is Level 1 Multiverse; if the singular Universe is large enough...infinite, then even our Observable Universe would repeat infinite times. That is technically only one Universe with the same laws of physics for it, but if there are infinite copies of today's Earth AND of today's entire Milky Way? If the copies are exact or only one part per million trillion different...they count as different Universes at least philosophically. Well I lost track and did some rambling, which Sean's' show he does all the time adding more trivia while answering question...he is so much better at this than me though.

[@denalozecon9074]

Some person "I am the reincarnation of Cleopatra" Sean Caroll "What does that mean?" LOL If there is reincarnation? Fine. Still if there is reincarnation, only one person who claims they are a reincarnation COULD be correct. Ironically the ACTUAL literal reincarnation of Cleopatra might have lived decades recently and never did anything interesting...and ALL who claim to be so are delusional. Well three different possibilities. 1st: the actual reincarnation of Cleopatra. 2nd: all other people who are delusional and claim to be the reincarnation of Cleopatra. 3rd: for people who make such claims impossible to prove wrong, but having no evidence; I think mostly they would not really be delusional...and instead are just bullshitting for a reaction. I have had multiple people say the most absurd things as a 'fact' with a straight face, then later admit it was just some bullshit. I think this happened a lot because I am so open minded that I have trouble defining what is actually NOT possible at all. Improbable is something I can guess at, but impossible for me is only for contradictions; two statements that contradict can in theory have only one mostly correct opinion. But even for contradictions it gets complex. Still I will describe two statements from the same person, an example of my skepticism. "I am the Christian God. I am omnipotent." "I created an Artificial Intelligence that rules the entire Internet. Now I am really pissed off because the Police stole my Memory Device that had my AI on it! The Police refuse to return my AI that obeys me and lets me rule the Internet." I like the guy as I think he wants to be an ethical person. Still he says things like that and even the open minded person I am can only react in puzzled disbelief. He ORDERED me to LEAVE this city after he claimed he was angry I did not believe he is the Christian God. If the Christian God does exist? Fine. Still why would God want to do anything to impress me? Why get pissed off at me for buying him a hamburger that made his stomach irritated because he was suffering from Heroin withdrawal? That last one was so silly! He really was angry and to me did not look unusual, so I had no clue he had any problems...and he was angry I did not KNOW he had some problems that day? He puzzles me.

[@bird65413]

🌻it's called "ratmote viewing" 🐁 🐦

[@aprylvanryn5898]

First time I saw delta t I panicked so I appreciate you putting symbols in your book

[@aprylvanryn5898]

You would not be able to tell if you were within a boltzman brain but that is ok

[@HarryNicNicholas]

for the sake of a rant (53:00) getting a 12 hour ban for swearing at myself is a bit silly. getting a ban for saying "it's like being told 'i hope you catch cancer' " is a bit indsicriminate, and when it comes to facebook, okay, a ban for "bullying" might be reasonable, but to stop you from uploading to your own page, to stop you "liking" stuff, seems not only silly, but the 30 day ban i got just let me forget facebook was even there, i use it entirely differently since then.

[@aprylvanryn5898]

Oh, sounds like you met Steve shives. Sorry

[@bitoksk]

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[@hematadopormenos]

In minute 9, you missed an obvious hypothesis: rats are sentient, learn from each other, and passed the knowledge to rats on the other side of the world by degrees of separation by demonstrating how to complete the task.

[@dreed7312]

I burst out laughing on the rats.

[@josephi1047]

As soon as someone interjects their political leanings I sign off.

[@nicklyon6325]

I woke up to this autoplaying. Wth am I listening to lol

[@wesleysmith5275]

To the point of free speech that you made about "Hitler didn't go far enough" no doubt there is an inherent disgust to that type of thought but you can't see why it could be dangerous to censor even that distasteful of a thought in the realm of free speech and rather let it die in the court of public opinion? Because again you run up against who should be the arbiter of truth even when the topic is horrible it could be abused in the opposite direction and again lead to some other type of horrible distasteful outcome even if the hope is to prevent something horrible. In short, the thing you do to prevent something is the cause of it happening.

[@HarryNicNicholas]

if i had a penny for every time some one has said "i can't imagine how..."

[@Chupacabraification]

This really needs timestamps.

[@3dlabs99]

Click on the 2nd link in the description... Full transcript with timestamps.

[@p.zcreations9986]

Absolutely you are right 😮

[@cchang2771]

Totally biased view on the possibility of God. He does not know that he does not know.

[@yaserthe1]

Woohoooo

[@defenderofwisdom]

In one sense, prioritizing a short-term future of joy is somewhat pretentious. I don't mean to say this in an insulting tone... I'm a fan of your podcast and I think your rationality is impeccable so don't take it as an attack. It's just if we don't know the upper and lower bounds of reality (such as, knowing the origin of the universe or knowing what comes after heat death, and philosophical problems of what terms can even possibly describe ideas like after time or before time) then we have to assume that avoiding suffering and then going extinct prevents us from potentially discovering upper and lower bounds upon which life or consciousness can be migrated to. Albeit, I entirely agree that maximizing life for as long as possible and generating the longest lasting hell is much, much worse than pretentious, it's excessively unjust. If we could end heat death, we should, but if we cannot then the best approximation of that task is the one which balances the best mix of freedoms to choose purposes and tasks (regardless of pleasure or pain) with the best longevity such that we can discover the upper and lower bounds of reality enough to explain the most fruitful possible world available to this universe. In this sense, longtermism has merit over short term utilitarianism. The latter assumes too much about what thresholds exist and what our limits are. For all we know, you can push back the heat-death of the universe or even escape it but we just don't know how because we are ignorant. To be fair I think this is highly unlikely. But what I'm not convinced about is that nothing existed before the big bang, that the end of the universe is a permanent end or that nothing exists other than the universe and therefore the limits of intelligent life should be found on earth and soon. We should be willing to explore reality and the universe until such a time that we can be certain about these things such that the range of time in which living experiences can be pegged within acceptable and reasonable boundaries is known. If we don't do any better than this we're short-changing ourselves out of the possibilities of existence on the gamble that what we have, what we know and what we can experience now until that short-term extinction is sufficient for us. We don't know it is.

[@tarazan3456]

around 4 hours... beaucoup long

[@rohanjagdale97]

real life sheldon cooper ..

[@hmp01]

without all the annoying aspects sure :D

[@THAD-rm5fz]

After 19 min. talk about minutiae he talks about himself. Seriously? That was where I lost interest and stopped listening.

[@davethebrahman9870]

I was really enjoying this until the disingenuous and frankly pathetic apologia for Leftist censorship.

[@wesleysmith5275]

same unfortunately.

[@mitchkahle314]

For the cat people... kzbin.info/www/bejne/m6C2pq1ro7Omes0

[@hermiod]

How can I block this channel? I always wake up listening this. Cool, but is no what I wanted.

[@kovex-pulthul]

4 hours dayum

[@kareemjesusdevlin6490]

If your cats names are Caliban and Ariel, can we call you Prospero? 🧙‍♂️🪄

[@martiadams1534]