Sean Carroll
speaker
23 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 30 Jul
Sean Carroll’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Appearances
The best thing I've done recently with my free will, I think I've really perfected my French onion soup.
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I don't know, is that okay?
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Like I really worked on this.
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You gotta spend a lot of time caramelizing the onions.
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Weather predictions use atmospheric science, fluid mechanics.
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When you talk about the atmosphere around you, what do you talk about?
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You talk about its temperature, the pressure, the humidity, the velocity of the wind, things like that.
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The idea of emergence is there are multiple ways of talking about the universe.
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So we distinguish between the microscopic theory.
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That's the lower level theory with all the atoms and things like that.
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And then the emergent macroscopic higher level theory where there's people and puppies and baseballs and stuff like that.
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The you that is making that decision is a sort of collective emergent phenomenon that comes out of all of the microscopic properties and processes going on in your brain, each one of which obeys the laws of biology.
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If we're talking about neurons and synapses firing, et cetera, or the laws of physics, if we're talking about the atoms and molecules.
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I think there are so many examples of things that we never thought we'd be able to understand.
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Like, I'm sitting on this chair.
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Why doesn't it collapse?
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Back in the day, you would have just said, well, it just is.
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It's made of wood or metal or whatever.
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There's nothing deeper about it.
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But now we say, oh, no, we understand that it's made of atoms.
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