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Poetic Naturalist||Law||Quantum Mechanics||Natural Philosophy.
Happy 10th anniversary to
@seanmcarroll.bsky.social
book, "The Big Picture."
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In part, sure! The quantum state is intrinsically nonlocal due to entanglement. The future of the state is determined by the current state and the Schrödinger equation. Data from Illinois are necessary to predict the future evolution.
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Daniel Dennett’s Real Patterns in Science and Nature— new collected volume is now out. All chapters open access, including my paper with Acyuth Parola on what emergence can possibly mean.
direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edi...
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Dennett's Real Patterns in Science and Nature
How the concept of a pattern, as understood in information science and applied in contemporary AI, can address deep questions in science and philosophy.The
https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edited-volume/6112/Dennett-s-Real-Patterns-in-Science-and-Nature
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If you look closely you will see
#MindscapePodcast
featured in this announcement for "Prompted Playlists" on Spotify.
newsroom.spotify.com/2026-04-07/p...
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Prompted Playlist Levels Up to Include Podcasts, Helping You Explore More Interests and Curiosities — Spotify
Starting today, Prompted Playlist is expanding beyond music to now include podcasts. Launched earlier this year in beta, this feature lets you steer the algorithm by creating playlists based on your listening history and real-time signals on Spotify, including trends and charts, so the playlist reflects both your tastes and what’s happening in the world...
https://newsroom.spotify.com/2026-04-07/prompted-playlist-for-podcasts-launch/
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The IgNobel Prizes, usually bestowed at a ceremony in Cambridge, Mass, are moving to Europe this year due to security concerns for honorees and journalists coming to the US from abroad. I bet I know who's going to win the IgNobel Peace Prize this year.
arstechnica.com/science/2026...
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Ig Nobels ceremony moves to Europe over security concerns
Marc Abraham: “During the past year, it has become unsafe for our guests to visit the country."
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/03/ig-nobels-ceremony-moves-to-europe-over-security-concerns/
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Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute #DISI
2 months ago
Featuring DISI co-director, Erica Cartmill!
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3 months ago
Hey, my name is in the Epstein files! I've told the story before, but should probably re-up. TLDR: never met the guy, never took (or asked for) any money from him, never visited the island. I was invited to the island, and said no. It's not that hard to just say no.
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Here I am on Star Talk with
@neildegrassetyson.com
and
@chucknicecomic.bsky.social
. It's basically a group AMA, so we talk about black holes and the arrow of time and other cosmic goodies.
startalkmedia.com/show/cosmic-...
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Cosmic Queries – The Complex Universe with Sean Carroll - StarTalk Radio
Will we find a theory of everything? Neil deGrasse Tyson & Chuck Nice answer Qs on many worlds, entropy, the theory of everything, & more w/ Sean Carroll.
https://startalkmedia.com/show/cosmic-queries-the-complex-universe-with-sean-carroll/
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What is time? Especially as we usher the new year in different parts of the world with different time zones.
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4 months ago
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George H. D. Walker
4 months ago
also, this is an excellent podcast episode =>
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2020...
100 | Solo: On Life and Its Meaning was listening to it before the New Year 2026 !!
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100 | Solo: On Life and Its Meaning – Sean Carroll
https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2020/06/08/100-solo-on-life-and-its-meaning/
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5 months ago
We're livestreaming a Book Club chat with
@scifri.bsky.social
on Monday, 1pm Eastern. Talking about The Biggest Ideas In the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion. Join us!
youtube.com/live/lL-lxeQ...
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THE BIGGEST IDEAS IN THE UNIVERSE - Author Livestream and Q&A with Sean M. Carroll
YouTube video by SciFri
https://youtube.com/live/lL-lxeQubi4
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Time to become a Patreon supporter
@seanmcarroll.bsky.social
!
#Spotifywrapped
5 months ago
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7 months ago
Mindscape 331 | Solo: Fine-Tuning, God, and the Multiverse. In which I shamelessly steal material from the
#PhilosophyOfCosmology
course I am teaching to talk about some big questions.
#MindscapePodcast
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
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7 months ago
I know I’m safe from winning the Nobel Prize because there’s no way I’m answering a phone call at 4am or whatever. They’re just going to give up and move on to the next choice. (Could have happened several times already, you don’t know.)
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Thanks to
@bigthink.com
for giving me an opportunity to babble on about physics and how awesome it is. (TL;DR: extremely awesome.)
bigthink.com/series/full-...
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Sean Carroll explains why physics is both simple and impossible
“I like to say that physics is hard because physics is easy, by which I mean we actually think about physics as students.”
https://bigthink.com/series/full-interview/physics-of-the-universe/
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This was a fantastic episode.
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12 months ago
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In the poetic Naturalism gospel.... I met Ibn Sina.
@seanmcarroll.bsky.social
calls him the most annoying polymath in the natural Philosophy world. He was equally wise in the poetic side 😂😂😂😂
about 1 year ago
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"We should be able to understand consciousness without violating the laws of physics that make you and me." Prof
@seanmcarroll.bsky.social
presentation at the Royal Institution. As a Poetic Naturalism convert, I am eagerly waiting for Emergence and Complexity book. Then the presentation at RI❤️
about 1 year ago
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"The arrow of time is something that is absolutely central to how we THINK about the world. It is so central that you don't notice it is a thing ."
@seanmcarroll.bsky.social
presentation on Royal Institution 2017. Poetic Naturalism is gaining momentum in 2025! Trust me.
about 1 year ago
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@seanmcarroll.bsky.social
was thinking this afternoon. Could this be a case of poetic naturalism ( DNA inheritance-Conservation of Information)?
over 1 year ago
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over 1 year ago
Many thanks to the anonymous
#MindscapePodcast
listener who sent chocolates! What a great gig I have.
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🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🤗
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over 1 year ago
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This is the best birthday intellectual gift I have come across this year.
@seanmcarroll.bsky.social
Poetic Naturalism "spiritual path" is the best transition I have had since August 2023. As I turn 30 on Xmas Day, I have a new spiritual HOME! It gets better.
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over 1 year ago
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over 1 year ago
Happy Holiday
#Caturday
from Ariel, Caliban, and Puck.
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🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂
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over 1 year ago
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Just saying Sean Carroll is called Michael. Let me listen to this wonderful podcast of two Michaels😂😂😂😂😂
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over 1 year ago
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over 1 year ago
Mindscape 299 | Michael Wong
@miquai.bsky.social
on Information, Function, and the Origin of Life.
#MindscapePodcast
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2024...
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299 | Michael Wong on Information, Function, and the Origin of Life – Sean Carroll
https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2024/12/16/299-michael-wong-on-information-function-and-the-origin-of-life/
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Dear Prof
@seanmcarroll.bsky.social
, on a scale of 1-10 mark my understanding on Poetic Naturalism 😂😂. Am I okay as a non physicist but a natural philosopher at heart?
over 1 year ago
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Prof
@seanmcarroll.bsky.social
the spirit of Muriel Rukeyser must have connected with you when you wrote The Big Picture. Ever since I gave my life to Poetic Naturalism, I am grounded and Practical but the Poetic part mesmerizes me daily. Waiting for book 3 on Emergence. 🥳🥳🥳✌️
over 1 year ago
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@seanmcarroll.bsky.social
this is my sleeping results on your presentation on, "The Big Picture" Poetic Naturalism I strongly believe is the right trajectory of life. Once one understands the Core Theory and has the desiderata (poetic) what else do we need? 1/20th of the sun's energy. Perfect.
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Happy Birthday to
@seanmcarroll.bsky.social
. It's exactly One year ago that I gave my life to poetic naturalism. It's made me a better human being. I walk the talk of all your philosophical teachings. So thank you for your books, theoretical physics presentations and podcast. Waiting for AMA.🥳
over 1 year ago
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How do you feel about it?
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over 1 year ago
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over 1 year ago
Mindscape 298 | Jeff Lichtman on the Wiring Diagram of the Brain. We're off to map the connectome.
#MindscapePodcast
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2024...
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298 | Jeff Lichtman on the Wiring Diagram of the Brain – Sean Carroll
https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2024/12/09/298-jeff-lichtman-on-the-wiring-diagram-of-the-brain/
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At least for me I found a new spiritual phase. 😂😂😂
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over 1 year ago
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My new year resolution is to be an active subscriber of
@seanmcarroll.bsky.social
Mindscape. This morning I walked up the hill and welcomed the sunrise and all that was in my mind was 1/3rd of the sun energy in low entropy form. Poetic Naturalism is so satisfying 🥳🥳😍. My heart is warm.
over 1 year ago
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over 1 year ago
We laugh, but: a clock is something that repeats reliably with respect to other clocks.
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over 1 year ago
A very good point that goes far beyond economics. Your description of the world is not objective if you make subjective choices about what to include in it. (Which we do, unavoidably.)
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Congrats to my Hopkins colleague Danielle Speller for the Joseph A. Johnson award! (Hoping to get a sneak preview when her experiments discover axion dark matter.)
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2024 Joseph A. Johnson Award Goes to Johns Hopkins University Assistant Professor Danielle Speller - AIP.ORG
Danielle Speller recognized for neutrinoless double beta decay and dark matter research and mentoring the next generation of aspiring physicists, Jessica Esquivel receives Honorable Mention
https://ww2.aip.org/aip/2024-joseph-a-johnson-award-goes-to-johns-hopkins-university-assistant-professor-danielle-speller
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One of the best feelings is when someone asks "What can you tell me about X?" and you think "I don't know anything about X" but then you dig more deeply and realize "Hey, I do actually know something about that." Feels like all that random reading and thinking hasn't been a complete waste of time.
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The Laplacian Demon is "communicating" 😂😂😂. Poetic Naturalism keeps on making sense to me and the science community will have an "aha" moment one day. Archimedes proving the philosophy. Emergence and Complexity 101 in natural philosophy.
over 1 year ago
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over 1 year ago
More great scientists moving here. Note that the cover of Neil’s book is mostly blue sky!
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Mindscape 297 | Emily Wilson
@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social
on Homer, Poetry and Translation. As a bonus (penalty?), you get to hear me read the openings of both The Iliad and The Odyssey.
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2024...
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297 | Emily Wilson on Homer, Poetry, and Translation – Sean Carroll
https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2024/11/25/297-emily-wilson-on-homer-poetry-and-translation/
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@seanmcarroll.bsky.social
thank you again for Poetic Naturalism. The Core Theory is IT. I hope they award you the Nobel Prize one day. Laplace would be proud, poetically, of course.😎
over 1 year ago
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For our observable universe, anyway. Prospects for other universes still uncertain.
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🤣🤣🤣🤣... Entropy and the Arrow of Time is suitable for humans during this period.
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over 1 year ago
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over 1 year ago
Supporting Nonlinear Careers to Diversify Science, by
@annaintegrated.bsky.social
and colleagues. Many talented people leave academia for a while, and someday want to come back, but multiple structural impediments make it difficult.
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over 1 year ago
I met Brandon after his provocative public talk in Santa Fe
@sfiscience.bsky.social
, "What is Lyfe? Towards a Biology of Context & Complexity."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rRN...
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What is Lyfe? Towards a Biology of Context & Complexity
YouTube video by Santa Fe Institute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rRNbiYg7fs&ab_channel=SantaFeInstitute
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Two books that
@seanmcarroll.bsky.social
has done that needs to be distributed to every single Hotel. 1. The Big Picture 2. From Eternity to Here. Complexity and Emergence will update the software of those two books. May the "Spirit" of the Laplacian Demon be with you Sean. 🙏
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over 1 year ago
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This morning in Nairobi, my benediction is on poetic Naturalism. I want to send a heartfelt gratitude to
@seanmcarroll.bsky.social
for educating me on how a broken egg gives me purpose in life. Just read his books and you'll understand. Emergence and Complexity will be HUGE!
over 1 year ago
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over 1 year ago
Thank you so much!
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