Mindscape Ask Me Anything, Sean Carroll | September 2026

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  @elite.parakeet_ · 2 weeks ago

  who’s still relistening to these in 2036 ❤

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• JO

  @JoeMicroscope · 2 weeks ago

  Great to have another Sean Carroll podcast, we are sooo lucky.

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  @bebex · 2 weeks ago

  4 hours of pure joy

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  @thosiawa · 2 weeks ago

  <b>AMA Timestamps</b><br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZ01J1mLQA&amp;t=9">0:00:09</a> — Corrections: Vítor Cardoso&apos;s institute location (Copenhagen, not Netherlands)<br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZ01J1mLQA&amp;t=101">0:01:41</a> — Corrections: the EPR/double-slit combined thought experiment mistake<br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZ01J1mLQA&amp;t=591">0:09:51</a> — Eric: Would an Alcubierre drive be able to escape a black hole?<br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZ01J1mLQA&amp;t=1294">0:21:34</a> — JJP Master: FNC and anthropic reasoning for the multiverse <b>Priority Question</b><br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZ01J1mLQA&amp;t=1751">0:29:11</a> — Ken Wolf: city size, walking speed, and directed vs. involuntary attention<br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZ01J1mLQA&amp;t=1876">0:31:16</a> — Urkan Certelli: how physicists keep up with new mathematics<br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZ01J1mLQA&amp;t=2003">0:33:23</a> — Killian: 12 human jurors or 12 AIs?<br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZ01J1mLQA&amp;t=2127">0:35:27</a> — Adam Mills: can information be passed through gravity waves?<br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZ01J1mLQA&amp;t=2350">0:39:10</a> — Peter42: how do strings connect to each other in string theory?<br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZ01J1mLQA&amp;t=2693">0:44:53</a> — EMTT Francis: advice on applying for faculty positions<br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZ01J1mLQA&amp;t=2936">0:48:56</a> — Nicola Ivanov: classical structure emergence and dividing Hilbert space<br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZ01J1mLQA&amp;t=3028">0:50:28</a> — Roland Weber: Emily Wilson&apos;s new Odyssey translation — repeat guest?<br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZ01J1mLQA&amp;t=3285">0:54:45</a> — Kevin James / Evo Major: dark energy, extra dimensions, and Vafa&apos;s dark dimension proposal<br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZ01J1mLQA&amp;t=3699">1:01:39</a> — Keith: &quot;Four Faces of Information&quot; paper&apos;s subjective/objective axis <b>Priority Question</b><br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZ01J1mLQA&amp;t=4102">1:08:22</a> — Kira K: PhD in physics/astrophysics starting in late 20s — job outlook?<br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZ01J1mLQA&amp;t=4266">1:11:06</a> — Chris Culter: intellectual courage vs. unjustified speculation<br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZ01J1mLQA&amp;t=4393">1:13:13</a> — Nolita S: Catholic school stories and questioning authority<br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZ01J1mLQA&amp;t=4780">1:19:40</a> — AJ: is there non-theoretical evidence for a cosmological multiverse?<br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZ01J1mLQA&amp;t=5084">1:24:44</a> — Darl Cutting: Boltzmann brains and dark energy dilution <b>Priority Question</b><br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZ01J1mLQA&amp;t=5235">1:27:15</a> — The Great Deceiver: AMA recording routine<br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZ01J1mLQA&amp;t=5294">1:28:14</a> — Andreas Nygard: Sagittarius A* — black hole or fermionic dark matter core?<br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZ01J1mLQA&amp;t=5504">1:31:44</a> — Red Lynx: how to talk to someone who believes in ghosts<br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZ01J1mLQA&amp;t=5566">1:32:46</a> — Jason Bryant: inferring design vs. coincidence (aligned stones, sun-moon size match)<br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZ01J1mLQA&amp;t=5745">1:35:45</a> — Peter Bamber: is compatibilism a useless concept?<br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZ01J1mLQA&amp;t=5898">1:38:18</a> — Anonymous: dimensions of intelligence AI won&apos;t exceed humans at<br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZ01J1mLQA&amp;t=5959">1:39:19</a> — Tyler Briggs: has ubiquitous compute changed theoretical physics?<br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZ01J1mLQA&amp;t=6055">1:40:55</a> — Kevin&apos;s Disobedience / Gustavo Chavez: monism vs. pluralism and whether a final theory exists<br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZ01J1mLQA&amp;t=6289">1:44:49</a> — Malcolm McGregor: red flags for spotting scientific cranks<br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZ01J1mLQA&amp;t=6462">1:47:42</a> — Heather Constant: appearing on Science Versus BS podcast<br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZ01J1mLQA&amp;t=6524">1:48:44</a> — Edward Sackinger / Emil Sevkov: Everettian branches, time, and consciousness<br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZ01J1mLQA&amp;t=6766">1:52:46</a> — Michael Lacy: free will debate as semantics<br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZ01J1mLQA&amp;t=6876">1:54:36</a> — David JS: US politics and limiting childhood vaccine access<br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZ01J1mLQA&amp;t=7071">1:57:51</a> — Dylan Samuel: could Lean/proof-solving tools be useful in physics?<br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZ01J1mLQA&amp;t=7196">1:59:56</a> — Alexander Kerkl: can LLMs become conscious?<br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZ01J1mLQA&amp;t=7236">2:00:36</a> — Tim Gianitas: pushback on &quot;locality from the spectrum&quot; paper<br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZ01J1mLQA&amp;t=7375">2:02:55</a> — Cresmir Gorov: how to process and organize information<br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZ01J1mLQA&amp;t=7656">2:07:36</a> — Flores Kuix: Wheeler-DeWitt timelessness and Everettian branching together<br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZ01J1mLQA&amp;t=7833">2:10:33</a> — Neil Gloo: is subjective first-person experience deterministic or stochastic?<br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZ01J1mLQA&amp;t=8018">2:13:38</a> — Adrian / population thinking: thoughts on intellectual property protection<br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZ01J1mLQA&amp;t=8266">2:17:46</a> — Eugene Brevto: will Mindscape ever stop saying &quot;yes&quot; to &quot;is it possible&quot; questions?<br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZ01J1mLQA&amp;t=8401">2:20:01</a> — Max Kant: Kingdom Rush difficulty settings<br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZ01J1mLQA&amp;t=8504">2:21:44</a> — Mark Kumary: credence in the eternal inflation multiverse<br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZ01J1mLQA&amp;t=8682">2:24:42</a> — Grace Monk: red, green, or Christmas chile?<br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZ01J1mLQA&amp;t=8686">2:24:46</a> — Tatiana: what can we learn about a black hole&apos;s interior from its horizon?<br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZ01J1mLQA&amp;t=8812">2:26:52</a> — David Curverian: what is superdeterminism?<br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZ01J1mLQA&amp;t=8986">2:29:46</a> — Rob Eersonen: could organizations or ideologies qualify as life?<br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZ01J1mLQA&amp;t=9172">2:32:52</a> — S. Sanders: could the ancient Greeks have discovered modern physics findings?<br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZ01J1mLQA&amp;t=9362">2:36:02</a> — Michael Bailey: why isn&apos;t entropy considered a force?<br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZ01J1mLQA&amp;t=9594">2:39:54</a> — Ryan Patrick: what causes early quantum fields to &quot;collapse&quot;?<br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZ01J1mLQA&amp;t=9737">2:42:17</a> — Bill McDonald: should academic standards apply equally regardless of race? (re: Jason Arday)<br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZ01J1mLQA&amp;t=9843">2:44:03</a> — Anonymous: PhD vs. a $175K industry job offer<br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZ01J1mLQA&amp;t=10134">2:48:54</a> — David: how to apply Bayes&apos; theorem internally when updating beliefs <b>Priority Question</b><br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZ01J1mLQA&amp;t=10291">2:51:31</a> — Balandrin: aesthetic preferences correlated with science/philosophy interest (ideal car)<br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZ01J1mLQA&amp;t=10420">2:53:40</a> — Bran Muffin: does it make sense to picture the universe&apos;s large-scale structure &quot;right now&quot;?<br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZ01J1mLQA&amp;t=10524">2:55:24</a> — David Harper: how do you document research progress?<br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZ01J1mLQA&amp;t=10670">2:57:50</a> — Robert Ru Rxandrescue: Dr. J and falling in love with a player&apos;s game<br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZ01J1mLQA&amp;t=10931">3:02:11</a> — Calvin FTH: is there inherent moral value to life? (painlessly killing kittens)<br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZ01J1mLQA&amp;t=11058">3:04:18</a> — Melo Honk: do cyclical universe models keep the same rules and constants?<br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZ01J1mLQA&amp;t=11194">3:06:34</a> — John Eastman: could shrinking length scales vs. expanding space be tested?<br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZ01J1mLQA&amp;t=11268">3:07:48</a> — Julio Katano: how does dark matter interact with black holes?<br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZ01J1mLQA&amp;t=11466">3:11:06</a> — Sean Bentley: why does increased motion through space decrease motion through time?<br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZ01J1mLQA&amp;t=11663">3:14:23</a> — Mirron Mijrai: where does a collapsing star&apos;s matter go in a black hole?<br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZ01J1mLQA&amp;t=11899">3:18:19</a> — Bo Parareizo: difference between &quot;fractal-like&quot; and &quot;scale-free&quot;<br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZ01J1mLQA&amp;t=11996">3:19:56</a> — Anonymous: how do people argue that time doesn&apos;t exist? <b>Priority Question</b><br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZ01J1mLQA&amp;t=12091">3:21:31</a> — Lean Akllog: electron/neutrino symmetry breaking elaboration<br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZ01J1mLQA&amp;t=12309">3:25:09</a> — Armchair epistemologist: credence on civilization&apos;s technological trajectory over the next 1k–100k years<br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZ01J1mLQA&amp;t=12627">3:30:27</a> — Jeromean: relation between symmetries and the laws of physics<br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZ01J1mLQA&amp;t=12820">3:33:40</a> — Karia: is Steph Curry more of a game-changer than LeBron?<br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZ01J1mLQA&amp;t=12981">3:36:21</a> — Marie Rascu: appearing on the Lives Well-Lived podcast with Peter Singer<br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZ01J1mLQA&amp;t=13108">3:38:28</a> — Jeremy Thornton: Laplace&apos;s demon and emergent concepts<br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZ01J1mLQA&amp;t=13191">3:39:51</a> — Alex Dubro: LLMs and human-like cognition, following up on Chandra Sripada<br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZ01J1mLQA&amp;t=13466">3:44:26</a> — Then Josh: functionalism vs. biological naturalism on consciousness<br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZ01J1mLQA&amp;t=13610">3:46:50</a> — Brett Slo: opposition to data center construction<br>- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZ01J1mLQA&amp;t=13836">3:50:36</a> — David Soautilongo: update on the Physics of Democracy book

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  @GothikBeerTV · 2 weeks ago

  First of all, thank you for your work. Very much appreciated. Secondly, I cannot believe I got here while there were only 11 comments!

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• TO

  @topcat7365 · 6 days ago

  Yay!

• RE

  @RedThevet · 2 weeks ago (edited)

  It&apos;s here! There goes the morning.

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• CI

  @cierra2713 · 12 days ago

  I love your mind 😊

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• JA

  @JarekKrawczyk · 2 weeks ago

  Thank you. Again &nbsp;looking forward to listening to yor interesting podcast.

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• MG

  @mgscheue · 2 weeks ago

  4 hours of AMA with Stan! ❤

• CA

  @Captainplanktonman · 2 weeks ago

  AMA never disappoints. Makes me so happy. Good stuff

• PM

  @pmc9079 · 1 day ago

  Another month, another opportunity for me to make mistakes, my brother from another mother