Happy 10th anniversary to @seanmcarroll.bsky.social book, "The Big Picture."

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.

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...

If you look closely you will see #MindscapePodcast featured in this announcement for "Prompted Playlists" on Spotify. newsroom.spotify.com/2026-04-07/p...

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...

Featuring DISI co-director, Erica Cartmill!

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.

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-...

What is time? Especially as we usher the new year in different parts of the world with different time zones.

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 !!

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...

Time to become a Patreon supporter @seanmcarroll.bsky.social ! #Spotifywrapped

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...

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.)

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-...

This was a fantastic episode.

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 😂😂😂😂

"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❤️

"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.

@seanmcarroll.bsky.social was thinking this afternoon. Could this be a case of poetic naturalism ( DNA inheritance-Conservation of Information)?

Many thanks to the anonymous #MindscapePodcast listener who sent chocolates! What a great gig I have.

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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.

Happy Holiday #Caturday from Ariel, Caliban, and Puck.

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Just saying Sean Carroll is called Michael. Let me listen to this wonderful podcast of two Michaels😂😂😂😂😂

Mindscape 299 | Michael Wong @miquai.bsky.social on Information, Function, and the Origin of Life. #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2024...

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?

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. 🥳🥳🥳✌️

@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.

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.🥳

How do you feel about it?

Mindscape 298 | Jeff Lichtman on the Wiring Diagram of the Brain. We're off to map the connectome. #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2024...

At least for me I found a new spiritual phase. 😂😂😂

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.

We laugh, but: a clock is something that repeats reliably with respect to other clocks.

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.)

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.) ww2.aip.org/aip/2024-jos...

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.

@seanmcarroll.bsky.social 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.

More great scientists moving here. Note that the cover of Neil’s book is mostly blue sky!

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...

@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.😎

For our observable universe, anyway. Prospects for other universes still uncertain.

🤣🤣🤣🤣... Entropy and the Arrow of Time is suitable for humans during this period.

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.

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...

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. 🙏

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!

Thank you so much!