Adam Elga

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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas · 345 | Adam Elga on Being Rational in a Very Large Universe · 23 Feb 2026 podcast

But that's not going to tell you the difference between whether you start sweating or not as you press the button.

I do, although I have to say I'm a lot less confident about it than I used to.

And

part of the, a large part of the reason my confidence has gone down aside from the great work, uh, criticizing that view that's, that's happened over the years is the problem of false brains.

And, um, it's thrown, uh, my confidence in this whole business to hell.

So I can't pretend to have the answers.

If you have forced me to choose, I'm going to go and go with that view.

Um,

But they're twists and turns, and I'm not that confident.

That's rough.

Speaking as Mr. Rational, I really like the idea of there being constraints.

And I guess I'm not comfortable with just –

all actions being on a par.

And when we add to the story that there's, for example, a door outside of the receiving room that in the Enterprise leads to a pizza party and in the Potemkin just is an airlock out into outer space.

Hard for me to give up the idea that there's some answer to the question about whether it's reasonable to open that airlock or not.

Right.

A lot of my... Now, we haven't gotten to the slightly more complicated cases.

We're going to get there.

We're going to work up to some cases where we add in... Remember, in the case we have so far, it is certain what will happen.

Right.

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