AMA | September 2024
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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
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Hello everyone, and welcome to the September 2024 Ask Me Anything edition of the Mindscape Podcast. I'm your host, Sean Carroll. Being as it's September, of course, for us university-bound folks, that means the semester has started, the school year has started again. As I'm recording this, I haven't quite yet started teaching. That'll be tomorrow, but it is already the vibe in the air. I've been, you know, on campus, the students are back, they're getting oriented, we've had welcome events for the different departments, and... I gotta say, I love it. It's just so romantic and beautiful. And the only downside is that I can't help in this day and age of being reminded that we underplay that romance, the romance of a bunch of people coming together to learn new things and to share that knowledge, right? To learn new things in the sense of doing research, right? also learn new things in the sense of going to classes, think about these ideas.
You know, we make fun of the idea of the dorm room conversations, but dorm room conversations are super important, I think, in our lives. And For whatever reasons, for lots of different reasons that I'm not going to go into right now, we tend to sort of be a little bit more small-minded about how we think about education these days. Either pro-education people who try to emphasize the practical benefits of it, getting jobs, technological innovation, whatever it is, or the anti-education people who think that universities are overly politicized, by which they often mean that they don't have their own politics and they don't approve of that. And so we don't have enough blatant, straightforward celebration of the idea of learning for its own sake, learning about the universe, learning about ourselves. So I don't have anything profound to say about this, but I do think that we shouldn't forget that more high-minded aspect of learning, of being at a university. It's a very, very special place.
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