
Sean Carroll's Mindscape
Mindscape provides a bridge to the biggest ideas in the universe, as shared by the most creative and intelligent thinkers.Sean Carroll is Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University, and author of numerous books. Every week he talks to a guest who is a world expert in some fascinating subject, and they talk about it in a way that is both informal and deeply informative.Learn about the complex dynamics of social systems, the mystery of quantum superposition, the origin of...
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Episodes (443)
AMA | October 2023
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252 | Hannah Ritchie on Keeping Hope for the Planet Alive
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251 | Rosemary Braun on Uncovering Patterns in Biological Complexity
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250 | Brendan Nyhan on Navigating the Information Ecosystem
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249 | Peter Godfrey-Smith on Sentience and Octopus Minds
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AMA | September 2023
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248 | Yejin Choi on AI and Common Sense
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247 | Samuel Bowles on Economics, Cooperation, and Inequality
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246 | David Stuart on Time and Science in Maya Civilization
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AMA | August 2023
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245 | Solo: The Crisis in Physics
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244 | Katie Elliott on Metaphysics, Chance, and Explanation
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243 | Joseph Silk on Science on the Moon
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242 | David Krakauer on Complexity, Agency, and Information
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AMA | July 2023
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241 | Tim Maudlin on Locality, Hidden Variables, and Quantum Foundations
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240 | Andrew Pontzen on Simulations and the Universe
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239 | Brian Lowery on the Social Self
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AMA | June 2023
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238 | Scott Shapiro on the Technology and Philosophy of Hacking
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237 | Brooke Harrington on Offshore Wealth as a Complex System
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236 | Thomas Hertog on Quantum Cosmology and Hawking's Final Theory
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AMA | May 2023
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235 | Andy Clark on the Extended and Predictive Mind
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234 | Tobias Warnecke on Cellular Structure and Evolution
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233 | Hugo Mercier on Reasoning and Skepticism
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232 | Amy Finkelstein on Adverse Selection and Hidden Information
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Ask Me Anything | April 2023
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231 | Sarah Bakewell on the History of Humanism
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230 | Raphaël Millière on How Artificial Intelligence Thinks
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229 | Nita Farahany on Ethics, Law, and Neurotechnology
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AMA | March 2023
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228 | Skye Cleary on Existentialism and Authenticity
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227 | Molly Crockett on the Psychology of Morality
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226 | Johanna Hoffman on Speculative Futures of Cities
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AMA | February 2023
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225 | Michael Tomasello on The Social Origins of Cognition and Agency
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224 | Edward Tufte on Data, Design, and Truth
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223 | Tania Lombrozo on What Explanations Are
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222 | Andrew Strominger on Quantum Gravity and the Real World
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221 | Adam Bulley on How Mental Time Travel Makes Us Human
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Holiday Message 2022: Thinking Really Slowly
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220 | Lara Buchak on Risk and Rationality
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AMA | December 2022
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219 | Dani Bassett and Perry Zurn on the Neuroscience and Philosophy of Curiosit...
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218 | Raphael Bousso on Black Holes and the Holographic Universe
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217 | Margaret Levi on Moral Political Economy
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AMA | November 2022
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216 | John Allen Paulos on Numbers, Narratives, and Numeracy
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215 | Barry Loewer on Physics, Counterfactuals, and the Macroworld
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