Sean Carroll

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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas · Mindscape Ask Me Anything, Sean Carroll | September 2026 · 14 Sep 2026 podcast

I have to be in the infinite-sized one. podcast-host

And that seems a little bit presumptuous, right? podcast-host

So we don't want that to happen. podcast-host

So, but I do think that if there's two universes with um different non-zero but non-one probabilities of getting at least. podcast-host

one observer like you, that it's okay to prefer the ones that have a slightly bigger probability of getting an observer like you. podcast-host

I don't think that that's too presumptuous. podcast-host

I think that's just doing good science. podcast-host

Ken Wolfe says in your talk with Luis Betancourt, you discussed how the size of the city that a person lives in can change their behavior right down to things like how fast they walk. podcast-host

I could not help but think of a previous episode where Mark Berman made a distinction between directed or top-down attention and involuntary or bottom-up attention. podcast-host

Could it be that a feature of larger cities is that there are simply more things which are forcing us to direct our attention, leaving less time and opportunity for involuntary attention? podcast-host

Could it could that be a source of these changes in behavior? podcast-host

Um it could be that is possible, as you know, that's gonna be my answer. podcast-host

Um podcast-host

Mark Berman and Luis Betancourt are colleagues at the University of Chicago. podcast-host

They collaborate together and they talk to each other. podcast-host

So I'm sure they have thought about this. podcast-host

Uh my impression is that, um podcast-host

the people like Luis Bettencourt and Geoffrey West, who is his collaborator also, who thought about the city scaling laws and the superlinear and sublinear behavior, etcetera, podcast-host

are less concerned with the mechanism and more concerned with just figuring out that it happens. podcast-host

I think or at least their kinds of mechanisms are not down at the psychological level. podcast-host

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