Sean Carroll
speaker
26,727 appearances
49 recordings
4 series
first heard Apr 2024
last heard 6d ago
Sean Carroll’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Typically I don't get to answer every question that's asked, maybe half of the questions that are asked just because there are limits on how much talking I can do.
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So the priority question
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forces you forces me to try to answer it.
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I mean, th there's always a phil philosophical question about how one should deploy one's priority questions.
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Because if I don't if you ask a question and I don't answer it, and you're welcome to ask it again and again and again, but if I keep not ask answering it?
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You should get the message that in my judgment, my answer would not be that interesting, either because I don't know something about it, or I have nothing interesting to say, or whatever.
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So if you do ask a question, I don't answer it, um, there's two options.
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One is you can just think to yourself, well, probably there was not anything interesting to say, or the other option is you can start asking a priority question if you if you think that's so important to you.
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that you want me to try, I'm happy to do that.
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So here's this one.
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In your last AMA you express sympathies for full non-indexical conditioning when doing anthropic reasoning.
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However, that approach seems by my lights to undercut the force of your appeals to a cosmological multiverse to explain anthropic coincidences or fine tuning.
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Compare two multiverse models, one predicts that every pocket universe without fail will be life permitting,
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While the other predicts that only some such universes exist.
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So um by the way, I'm I'm pausing here.
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I I presume that uh this kind of use of the word universe is really like region of space.
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And the that's the what how t cosmologists typically use it.
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So we're not talking about
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the many worlds of quantum mechanics or something like that.
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Like a big old pocket universe could be billions and billions and quadrillions of light years across, but it's still tiny compared to a very, very, very big multiverse out there.
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