Sean Carroll

So what do we know about that?

You mentioned earlier this provocative thing, which I haven't had a chance to follow up on, about was it the geometry or the spatial structure of neural networks or neurons more generally and the role that that plays in the laws of thought?

Certainly from physics, there's a historical lesson that if there is a mathematical theorem saying you can't do something, you will always become famous by figuring out how to do it somehow by violating the assumptions of the theorem one way or the other.

I mean, maybe a good place to wind up the conversation is to return to what you mentioned at the beginning of our conversation, but the end of your book, which is Mars level of thinking.

There's sort of a nice synthetic way of thinking about the reason why there's not just a simple once and for all set of laws of thought.

There's a lot of things going on.

They're all interconnected with each other.

Yeah, I think of it as a story of emergence, but there's more than one useful, true way of talking about the universe.

It's definitely the fun place to live intellectually where you do know some things, but there's still an enormous amount of things that you have yet to figure out.

So Tom Griffiths, thanks very much for being on the Mindscape podcast.

Hey, how's it going?

Lord Chuck, I didn't know you got a promotion.

Yeah, I mean, no kings, but lords are okay.

The occasional lord.

That's right.

There aren't that many of those.

I'm basically the only one, so it's nice.

Right.

It is.

Okay.