Mindscape Ask Me Anything, Sean Carroll | December 2024

[@MickeyDaM0use]

A very good skill for the viewer is to be able to know the difference between those who make content solely for money and those who make content to enlighten others as it is their passion. Here, we know we have the latter.

[@True-eee]

Leading by example ❤

[@Billy_BrownCow]

I must be leading the wrong people. I realised I've been not posting any scientific discovery lately. I have been speaking about it. I realised that anything I posted, i try to expand theory or see a flaw was stolen online. Even chatgpt basically fact checks me. Then I use google, and other search engines to fact check it. 😅

[@anklexpress]

2:39:41 I would agree. I was a high school dropout who went on to to take classes off and on at a local community college for years before I finally narrowed in on physics and managed to go to a good university to study physics at 29. I went to grad school for a year but dropped out to help out my family and myself as I was struggling with burnout from the extreme workload I put on myself due to a bit of imposter syndrome in undergrad, and now at 39 I am about to restart that PhD program, having gotten accepted back to the same school to start this January 2025. On the one hand I'm older than many professors and it seems as though I've wasted a lifetime that could have spent doing physics, on the other hand, I've lived a lifetime outside of physics doing things that no one doing a traditional physics track would ever have time to do, and I did them when I was of an age to truly experience them as opposed to doing them when I am retired and in my 70s and perhaps physically or mentally unable to experience them in the same way. I've lived a wonderful and full life and being able to go back now, to finish what I started a decade ago, is absolutely fantastic. No one really cares about your age as long as you are excited and motivated about what you do. Enthusiasm is universally infectious and is immune to the ravages of time and age

[@user-yv6xw7ns3o]

That is inspiring. Thank you for sharing!

[@joskeguereza3714]

Mindscape is definitely the podcast where i've learned most on the most diverse subjects. Don't change a thing about it, it's great :)

[@mathewelsaesser5344]

I love this podcast!

[@whoprofits2661]

We live in a postmodern society, where truths seem to matter less than perceptions. But objectives truths is what makes Mindscape more important than ever. Sean, please don't change the format!

[@Billy_BrownCow]

There is a perception filter of reality. I believe the reality we are in is split by 6 realms "Gods", "Demi-gods(where I am)", humans, animals, hungry ghosts(how we are communicating with), hells(demons). I believe the dsm-5 is a tool to break the perception and the bible possibly(Ethiopian Bible). I think 🤔 demons are people with anti-social personalities disorders. I don't think they have the ability to watch a 4 hour podcast so I dont think they will click here. 😅 I believe bipolar=werewolf, borderline personality disorders= succubus or incubus, Narcissistic personality disorders=Demons, Psychopath=Gods happy accidents(animals that died twice from suicide) This is all part of Buddhism. I'm not greedy, never begged, or never harmed anyone on purpose. 😅 More holy then God and Jesus 🫨 I reckon that if we open up the vacuum and in water or in rock that ends up inside a black hole. I believe Mars scarification of their water was so Jesus could walk on water to measure the size of a black hole. They used all the water and possibly wrote done how much water is on Mars. How much water was on Mars no idea. We have been opening up vacuums in copper. 🫨 Which probably super charge the black hole. It's is possible the universe was on fire still when mars was covered in water. They used all their water to put it out.🤷 Over a billion years ago or 4^10 years ago. Since then it has been a vacuum in space. Hopefully copper is resistant to balck wholes. Though the particle Colliders. I wonder if it possible to use black holes to transfer of energy in the vacuum of space. Which black hole when and where or if we put rocks into vacuums. Sorry talking shit😂

[@whoprofits2661]

Sean, as always, great content. Thank you and keep them coming.

[@life42theuniverse]

2:13:30 Reason/logic of LLMs emerges from using logic/math lexicon within your questions. LLMs predict next words, so

[@life42theuniverse]

Nova: It seems like you're discussing how the reasoning and logic of Large Language Models (LLMs) arise from the way they process language and predict the next words in sequence. LLMs like me are designed to understand the connections between words and concepts based on patterns in the data we've been trained on. When users formulate their questions using clear logical structures or mathematical terminology, it can help the model generate more accurate and relevant responses by leveraging the relationships built into the training data. If you have a specific question or topic you'd like to explore further regarding LLMs, logic, or their functioning, feel free to ask!

[@tommygrandefors9691]

3:55 hours. How does he cope? Thank you Sean once again for your open, honest, and educative AMA.

[@mimidhof2179]

Hey Sean, you are wonderfull. Thank you for sharing your thought. Please keep on make us better people and thinker.

[@DudokX]

I wish all alternative media sources had at least half as much integrity as you.

[@Billy_BrownCow]

The best bible with integrity is the Ethiopian bible because the only censorship it has had is the term 'Ge'ez' because it's pronounced "gays" 😅 it was changed in 1980's I presumed because it was offensive. All the books have been unchanged since around 400AD. Probably because no one could read it other than Ethiopians. 😅

[@rickkearn7100]

In the past several minutes, I watched on another YT channel, a Sean Carroll dissertation on time. It was on Big Think (I think). I was so impressed that I subscribed to Sean's YT channel. The aforementioned YT episode was eye-opening with respect to my perception of time. Sean put it into a very tidy capsule of information which was easy to comprehend. As a layman, I find that desirable. I also have always been under the impression that Sean is a responsible scientist of high integrity, and that is becoming rarer and rarer in today's world.

[@Billy_BrownCow]

Yeah. I subscribed a few years back. Then got distracted by liars (the government/politics) had to guide trump into presidency and lead his opponents to join him. 😅 The perception of reality is we are on the earth's surface. Inside earth or all planets are tiny black holes. Probably with suns as well or white holes🤷 if we pump electricity through copper. It's through a solid vacuum. A Field is a plasma that travels there with the atmosphere and spirits I believe, or even radiation. If we open vacuums for radiation waste then it will come out of black holes. Or super charge the planets. What will happen to black holes and planets in the long term is 🤷 I don't know. Where do I consent to do this. The government 🤷 they don't know how to listen. 😅 Back to the perception filter. Maybe actually neutral holes in planets. I believe the neutral holes have the ability to evolve much faster. 😅 We are a collection of life forums the planets. All life's combined. Each planet scarification was to create particles or life for us to evolve possibly. Each realm we live in, in the forum of Buddhism tradition. Even planets are sacrificed to live for us. Too feed the sun to create life. (Who knows when mercury gets eaten by the sun, new life possibly) The reality I believe we are in are on hell or one step out of hell. It's when the universe was solid mass. Complete solid mass. Vibrated out some rocks gaining consciousness. They began to grain gravitational pull through neutral holes. We are walking on Jesus Christ, he gains the ability to walk on water, when Mars sacrifices water to measure black holes by Martians. so Jesus can walk on water. So they could measure and write down the black hole via the volume of water that was on Mars. That volume was multiple times by 4^15 I presume. Plus radatio, light. That radiation reflects off black holes and comes out of the Sun. If you create the planets together in the solar system and give it ability to go into the black hole. We will come out 4^15 or even bigger. Sorry I'm trying to calculate the math or a black hole. Could be infinite maybe bigger 4^15 or negative 4^15. Much smaller. Time will slow down if it smaller. You would have to be much much faster because you'll be spaghetti if not light. Matter would learn how to feel through or neutral holes. When planets formed time. Perhaps that what happens when mercury gets eaten by the sun/white whole. Control of time is demi-gods🤫 maybe humans. When we look up it's a perception filter that is a massive mirror that reflects Asgard or after it was destroyed after the people killed themselves and all the matter was destroyed fell apart and were the last past of decomposition or the past or what state on the past we are building towards through the past. Though we see the reflection through dreams and nightmares. Some people's dreams are other people's nightmare Vis versa. Stars put dreams into life and black holes (possibly any vaccum) put nightmares. Into people. If we look up are perceptions are blocked. Or altered by bad vibes or demons back actions of God. We are in hellhiem looking up to the death of the universe. We aren't human we are demi-gods evolved past gods because we have free will. Gods have controlled going into the past since 24th November 2024. We are going forward in time. I'm fixing paradoxes. 😅 Sorry I gotta go.

[@yazanalhajari4329]

2:51:46 thank you Dr Sean . And I was planning to start reading the biggest ideas “ I’ll remember your words . Happy holidays.

[@RealQinnMalloryu4]

Merry Christmas Sean Carroll

[@michaelkahama3459]

Sean Carroll, this podcast made me a poetic naturalist. Keep it up. 👏👏👏

[@nameatrandom9234]

A truly beautiful mind ❤

[@stevenpope689]

I definitely don’t understand everything you talk about but I’m so thankful for minds like yours. Thank you for taking the time to do these and for explaining complex concepts in a way that even I can follow sometimes.

[@humbertosantanajr510]

One of my favorite podcasts - and yes I learned of you from Rogan years ago - just fascinated by your work and pls keep these episodes coming

[@1.4142]

Make your reading list public so we can read them for you

[@ArchieLundy]

Jings, had me worried there for a moment Doc. Please don't change a thing about this cogent and rational oasis.

[@corgi93291]

Hello Prof. Carroll. I wasn’t sure where to post this question but I was wondering with the advancements in quantum computing and the focus on keeping quantum decoherence at bay to improve computational results, what is your take on this. In watching your videos, I understand your focus is more on the multiple universe view on things, but does the decoherence focus help us explain what’s going on with quantum computers or should we be looking at the situation from a multiple universe viewpoint?

[@Billy_BrownCow]

@Sean Carroll you should make a field of the science of innovation. Start your fourth book about science that lacks innovation and ideas from people that like to study everything.

[@Billy_BrownCow]

I'm an observer from a black hole 😅

[@Billy_BrownCow]

Gone through a white hole and now here😅

[@elizondorj]

Thank you for the podcast Sean. I believe you are doing the best you can with the set of abilities and resources you have to educate many people. I would not change anything. I’m going to miss the AMA for January ; have a happy holyday season.

[@CurtOntheRadio]

You're already a role model. We get that for free, as it were. Thanks.

[@real_pattern]

this 'real pattern' philosophical jargon is indistinguishable from bog standard metaphysical realism, the conjecture that reality exists exactly as it is; it is in some particular way, and the exact way reality exists is stance-independent. i'm not sure what's dennett's novel contribution beyond a snappy catchphrase that's more delicious to say than 'metaphysical realism'.

[@robotaholic]

I heard of a new subject I never heard before and I 100 million percent want your opinion on it do you think Super determinism is true? I hope it is! I've been a determinist and I'm a physicalist and I've been involved in the hatred of spiritual numinous bullcrap and I'm sick of quantum physics woo

[@jayvincent1865]

15:55 It would also stop the Representatives or elected officials from being able to falsely claim that the "people" support them...

[@tomasasompolinsky1143]

What's the limit of size of a black hole?

[@ajsmith7619]

Thank you Sean

[@bentationfunkiloglio]

Re: saving democracy over the next four years and Trump. Here's something to consider that might help lessen your anxiety. In order to win, Trump needed the help/support of several key, moderate Dems. To govern, he needs their continued support. This means that Trump has no choice, he has to govern as a moderate.

[@user-yv6xw7ns3o]

Thank you Sean!

[@nickknowles8402]

Love u man, will continue to support an honest, and a scientist with real humility

[@TheMemesofDestruction]

3:16:30 Probably the best piece of advice.

[@emilylowrance7930]

Sean you got a mention on another podcast I like,- RIP Jordan Jensen

[@stephenknox2346]

Mindscape is great as it is. Maybe try to enter more often into the podverse of other individuals in order to move the needle in a more fact based direction occasionally, if nothing else. I say that with full understanding that doing so must be extremely unpleasant at times.

[@bendybruce]

The fact that Joe Rogan's podcast is so insanely popular, and that this one is in comparison hardly watched by anyone, is a testament to the stupidity of humanity. Please keep doing what you do. I'm certain podcasts like this will stand the test of time far better than the cultural fast food so many people consume today.

[@bryandraughn9830]

Believe it or not most people don't watch podcasts at all. The numbers are easily available.

[@bendybruce]

@@bryandraughn9830 It was a relative statement. Many of Rogan's podcasts get millions of views, including his ridiculous platforming of Terence Howard, not to mention his interview with Donald Trump. PS these numbers are easily available.

[@n1VLeXeyWrn]

When someone is falling towards a black hole, his field of vision changes. When at very far away, the event horizon of the black holes looks like a dot. As he approaches, the dot grows into a disk. And the disk keeps growing to cover half of his field of vision when he reaches the photon sphere. Once he crosses the event horizon, he sees the whole outside universe as a single bright dot right behind him. The rest of his field of vision, is covered by the blackness.

[@danmakuSuki]

getting a standard model lagrangian tattoo

[@user-target4AGI]

... what is proton decay dependent to ?

[@mirakodus1]

"If you're not a spinning black hole, then you're perfectly spherically symmetric." This cannot be true :D

[@justinparnell9572]

When can we get Demis Hassabis or Ilya Sutskever on with Sean? Demis is trained in physics as well and often states that his goal is to develop AGI that can help him understand the nature of the physical universe.

[@JokingAtheist]

@Sean Carroll, I have a question. To ask the question I have to give you a thought experiment. My name is Chad so let's use that name in this example. Chad walks down a street the street has 10 houses 9 houses have red roofs and the ninth house has a green one. Chad then decides to go back in time to repaint the 10th house roof red. Meaning all the roofs are now red. We shall call this Chad, "Chad 1". Now Chad walks down the same reality, but this time reality is changed, and all 10 roofs are now red. Meaning Chad 2 is kind of born. This Chad 2 no longer goes back in time and paints any roofs as they are all red. The problem is Chad 1 certainly existed and now we have a new Chad 2 who also existed in the same reality. Both realities actually exist. So, in a weird way a new universe is born. Or is the first Chad 1 simply erased, and Chad 2 is now the new predominant reality. The question or problem I am having is understanding this paradox and a solution to this problem. Moreover, how can the new reality be born without violating the laws where energy cannot be created or destroyed. Did the Green Roof house ever actually exist in this scenario? Do you have any Thoughts on this issue?

[@jayvincent1865]

A real democracy won't exist until our representatives are legally obligated to represent their district's voters... Otherwise $$ or political incentives will always win against the public's actual views...

[@rudyj8948]

1:17:30 I would personally not ask other people for tattoo advice lmao. Personally though I like the gamma factor equation because its kind of the first hint at something weirder going on with relativity, but maybe schrodingers equation in the form you might see in a differential equations class, not with the bra and ket form. both are great :)

[@paulsass4343]

There is no difference between statistically likelihood of "truth" in physics and in social organization . The greatest good for the greatest number is an achievable project the same way the planning and execution of a better tool or food the -better- is also consensual as the scientific statistical likelihood of "truth"

[@paulsass4343]

I mean better in quotes but don't text expertly!

[@lovefeelsbest]

At the 27 min mark A bee describes to flys why honey tastes better than shit

[@joegordon-p6x]

umm we want to see Sean on his cam not just a detached Voice,, COMONNN SEAN!!!

[@origins7298]

1:56 on the reality of the wave function. I don't think Sean is doing a good job of seeing both sides of this question. It seems there is more evidence that all of our physical understanding of the world is just approximations from Newton to Einstein to Schrodinger's equation. The track record is that these are all approximations of the behavior of a universe that's so far can only be approximated in mathematical formalisms. We can do the same thing with Newtonian mechanics or general relativity that's Sean did with Schrodinger's equation and point to specific examples that the theories capture. So just because the equation is doing a good job of capturing certain aspects of the behavior of the universe doesn't mean that it is in any sense fundamental and that we should take it literally . This is what I don't get in someone who's as smart as Sean is. He all the time says we should be very skeptical and go the hardest on things we want to be true. But yet he disregards all the counter evidence and just looks very ideally at the theory that he wants to be true . I mean we know the Schrodinger equation is not satisfactory in understanding the universe at its most fundamental levels so why would many worlds be correct? Also there are very good counter arguments to many worlds such as have been highlighted by Sabine hoffenselder, which I have never heard Sean or anyone else that is a fan of this theory accurately respond to. Anyway I would love to hear what everyone else has to say about this intriguing topic.

[@nightvision32768]

Well, many-worlds is just an assumption/ interpretation, which does not pretend to be true, and there are no evidence to support or negate it It is just a way to "explain" things, not a theory, and leaning to it or another interpretation does not restrict you much about what you can do or think about existing scientific theories/equations/etc So any arguments to or against many-worlds and such - are pure speculation for now at least, and every scientist knows it, including the speaker for sure. Discussing it makes sense only for "intuitive understanding" of how underlying quantum mechanics machinery works, or just for fun If somehow any real counter evidence you mention would appear, everybody will just stick to it and change their mind, like today there are not many Newton believers who reject special relativity:) I think it is OK to have a preferred assumption, "opinion" is not "faith" here

[@mw-th9ov]

Your mix of teaching, research publishing, popular science publishing, lectures and podcasts covers the communication spectrum. No gaps as far as I can see, so carry on.

[@millatron2292]

in the three part question about black holes you posited that someone falling in might feel the effects of gravity before seeing them, however I don't believe that's correct. The signal from your feet to your brain cannot reach your brain faster than the speed of light, and so you should both feel and see it at the same time. Like if I reach out and touch something at my desk right now, although there is a slight nearly inconsequential delay of the light from my finger reaching my eyes, I will feel my finger touch it and see it at the same time at best, or feel it slightly after seeing it if the electrical signal in my body travels at slower than the speed of light. It would be impossible for it to reach my brain faster than the speed of light.

[@oaklyfoundation]

Give me video please, I don’t but I can’t watch podcasts without video 😔

[@sanojh08]

can you do timestamps?

[@GoatOfTheWoods]

46:50 Angels Envy - Triple Oak Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey

[@Michael-nt1me]

What developing integral sense of our conscience across ...personal moralisations, populational legalities, and professional ethics.... may come as our technological know how and technologically interconnecting advance ventures further into what we deem as ...true, truth, and more truthful.... coming forth and going forward.

[@nickb8897]

4 hours?? I'm not complaining. I'm all fkr it

[@isitme1234]

❤

[@coreyander286]

3:03: I'm trying to imagine what Sean Carroll rebranding to be a role model for young men would look like. I can only picture a looped video of Sean wearing sunglasses, smoking a cigar as a trap beat plays.

[@joshua3171]

🍸👍

[@isonlynameleft]

Sean Carroll is a great scientist, but he’s not on the same level of physicist as Joe Rogan. 🤭

[@mw-th9ov]

On the subject of what to do to preserve democracy in the most general context of the diversity of individual conceptions of the good: what every such conceptions shares when it is compatible with democracy is a basis in telling the truth and defending a shared conception of truth as a public good. (Rawls)

[@drumsticksusa]

Joe Rogan is far better seen as mere entertainment if your goal is real information. Sean is great. Chris Williamson is good. Rogan is of far less value.

[@Getexposedddddd]

Babe wake up December Christmas ama

[@0004W]

Thanks Universe for creating Sean Carrol out of the collapsing stars …

[@lukeskydropper]

I voted for Trump, also I love your podcast its amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@user-target4AGI]

... Sean Carol looks hardly grounded to classic science today ...

[@Michael-nt1me]

Trump!!! for the ...fun, sport and transcendence.... of it all without any integrally greater ...sense, science, and salience.... coming forth and going forward.

[@NiklasVonDyrendahl]

Oh I don’t give a damn about that! The value for me wouldn’t change if Sean made 5 million bucks out of this one! I would actually be glad for him. But hey, we’re all different!

[@keatonb1zarr0]

Blazed up and ready to go! 🥬🌬