Rachell Powell

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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas · 342 | Rachell Powell on Evolutionary Convergence, Morality, and Mind · 26 Jan 2026 podcast

Well, okay.

So there's like short term and very long term.

Yeah.

And this is where you get into like sort of debates about long-termism as an ethic, right?

I mean, you know, anyone who's, you know, when I was little, I remember being worried, and I'm sure this is true for a lot of people when they're young and they're here reading, you know, learning about the solar system and star life cycles.

And I started to get real worried about the sun bloating, right?

And whether it's going to swallow the earth or, you know, or what, right?

um you know in the uh in a red giant phase and like that's all freaking me out and so people you know anyone think worrying about like where humans gonna be at that time or will they have made it into space and common i mean this is just the scales that we're talking about are so vast that from a macroevolutionary standpoint it's like i you know

On the other hand, I think that there are some interesting things to think about, even in shorter-term questions, about human survival.

And then I'll say something about the ethical side, too, because I think that ultimately what's driving this question, what makes it so poignant or compelling, is that it means something to us.

And then trying to figure out what it means and why extinction would be bad or good for some people, I guess.

is another matter.

But here's one thing.

I mean, so an interesting question I think is like when you're, if you're, I don't want to get into the zeitgeists because I, but maybe we have no choice and that's what happens, right?

So like now I'm going to talk about AI because like that's what's going on right now.

And probably 50 years from now it's going to be something different.

And I don't know, we'll be laughing about talking about it.

Maybe, I don't know.

Um, but like,

You know, I guess like one thing that I wanna, I do take,

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