Sean Carroll

There is something about, you know, being in like a forest or something like that right after the rainfall.

Okay, I didn't know.

Okay, I didn't know.

Okay.

Okay.

Do we need like a twist or anything?

Do we need like a twist or anything?

This sounds perfect. And I have one of the ingredients. I have the Antica. I'm going to have to work hard to get the other. Yeah, I'm not going to be able to make my own gin. So what, like off the shelf, what's the closest one can come to that?

This sounds perfect. And I have one of the ingredients. I have the Antica. I'm going to have to work hard to get the other. Yeah, I'm not going to be able to make my own gin. So what, like off the shelf, what's the closest one can come to that?

Yeah, from Italy. Pretty delightful. Intriguing and weird. These are good words to have in the description of our cocktail. So I'm going to try this. I can't try it tonight, but I'm going to try to put it together. I think tonight I'm going to try the two parts gin, one part vermouth stirred martini that you're recommending. That's even more vermouth than I usually put in there.

Yeah, from Italy. Pretty delightful. Intriguing and weird. These are good words to have in the description of our cocktail. So I'm going to try this. I can't try it tonight, but I'm going to try to put it together. I think tonight I'm going to try the two parts gin, one part vermouth stirred martini that you're recommending. That's even more vermouth than I usually put in there.

And I think that I'm over average, but I'm absolutely going to give it a try. So Kevin Peterson, thanks very much for being on the Mindscape podcast.

And I think that I'm over average, but I'm absolutely going to give it a try. So Kevin Peterson, thanks very much for being on the Mindscape podcast.

Hello, everyone. Welcome to the Mindscape Podcast. I'm your host, Sean Carroll. We had a AMA question a couple of weeks ago, earlier this month, that I'm not sure I did a great job of answering. You know, I tried to give an impression of what was in my mind. The question was about the difference between complexity in the sense of complex systems research versus simply being complicated.

Hello, everyone. Welcome to the Mindscape Podcast. I'm your host, Sean Carroll. We had a AMA question a couple of weeks ago, earlier this month, that I'm not sure I did a great job of answering. You know, I tried to give an impression of what was in my mind. The question was about the difference between complexity in the sense of complex systems research versus simply being complicated.

I have actually invoked this distinction before. They're not the same thing, but, you know, neither word really has an agreed upon single definition. So I kind of And I said, well, it's up to whoever is speaking. You can mean different things.

I have actually invoked this distinction before. They're not the same thing, but, you know, neither word really has an agreed upon single definition. So I kind of And I said, well, it's up to whoever is speaking. You can mean different things.

But it occurred to me later when thinking about today's podcast that you're about to hear that there is sort of a single thing you can put your finger on that really distinguishes simply being complicated from being complex in the sense that we use it, which is complicated means there's a lot of stuff going on.

But it occurred to me later when thinking about today's podcast that you're about to hear that there is sort of a single thing you can put your finger on that really distinguishes simply being complicated from being complex in the sense that we use it, which is complicated means there's a lot of stuff going on.

Complexity happens when there's a lot of stuff going on and those things interact with each other so that in some sense the whole system of interacting complicated things going on forms a whole. There is some notion of the system arising out of the smaller pieces in a way that still makes the pieces be important.