Sean Carroll
speaker
26,727 appearances
49 recordings
4 series
first heard Apr 2024
last heard 5d ago
Sean Carroll’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Maybe Tai Chi is better than yoga.
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I'm not quite sure.
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I've got to think about this.
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It's a new idea.
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But, you know, look, as a physicalist about consciousness, the brain, I think, is part of the body.
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Of course, they're closely related to each other.
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So I think this does make sense.
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But I did want to...
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with the democracy angle here.
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One of the things you talk about in the book is the idea that perhaps poetry can help us empathize, can help us think about other people other ways.
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I mean, I do know, I try to recognize my own limitations.
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I am a writer of nonfiction.
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And when I contemplate writing fiction, one of the biggest barriers is that I don't think I'd be good at expressing people who are very different than myself.
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But maybe poetry is a way to become better at that.
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Well, I think there's a line, I think it's in your book, about listening across differences that might be somewhere in the press release or something like that.
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But I sometimes worry about democracy.
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I'm a huge defender of it.
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There's no better system.
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But is it overly utopian to hope that we can all come together and
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not try to just homogenize everybody, but admit that we are a little bit different and nevertheless live together with those differences.
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