Sean Carroll

And next time we're both in Santa Fe, we'll go out and have that drink.

Thanks very much, Andrea Wool, for being on the Mindscape podcast.

Those things that make you tilt your head and scrunch up your eyes.

Like, that's my lane.

That's what I do.

There's a joke in philosophy circles that once an area of philosophy starts making progress, it gets spun off to a completely different field.

So it never looks like philosophy actually makes progress.

But you're right.

Newton, Galileo, those folks would have called themselves philosophers.

The idea of a physicist hadn't been invented yet.

But what happens is that academia loves to categorize and silo people.

So they invent a physics department and a philosophy department and they examine what questions you could ask and they decide which is which.

But what that does is that it means that all the in-between stuff, because it's really a continuum here,

Yeah, those just get lost.

And we're at a point in physics right now where questions like, you know, what is an observer?

What is infinity?

Why is the past different from the future?

What is emergence?

Like, these are physics questions.

What makes this night different from all other nights?