Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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363 | Chandra Sripada on How LLMs and Humans are Cognitive Cousins

1:51:36Aug 10, 2026

Mindscape Ask Me Anything, Sean Carroll | August 2026

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

3:57:36Aug 3, 2026

362 | Luis Bettencourt on the Universal Properties of Self-Organizing Cities

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

1:20:07Jul 27, 2026

361 | Bonnie Bassler on How Bacteria Talk and Work Together

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

1:15:51Jul 20, 2026

Mindscape Ask Me Anything, Sean Carroll | July 2026

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

4:03:28Jul 13, 2026

360 | Marc Berman on the Science of Touching Grass

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

1:29:40Jul 6, 2026

359 | Solo: Theories of Dark Energy

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

1:56:11Jun 29, 2026

358 | Solo: Vacuum Energy and the Cosmological Constant

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

1:59:50Jun 22, 2026

357 | Jeff Coller on mRNA, Vaccines, and Bespoke Therapeutics

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

1:19:51Jun 15, 2026

356 | Andrea Wulf on Enlightenment, Nature, Romanticism, and Modernity

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

1:17:13Jun 8, 2026

AMA | June 2026

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

3:57:29Jun 1, 2026

355 | Solo: Looking Quantum Mechanics in the Eyeball

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

1:44:25May 24, 2026

354 | Christian List on Free Will and Levels of Reality

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

1:26:42May 18, 2026

353 | Alvin Roth on the Economics of Morally Contested Markets

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

1:11:44May 11, 2026

AMA | May 2026

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

4:06:12May 4, 2026

352 | Bing Brunton on Connecting the Connectome to the Body

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

1:14:10Apr 27, 2026

351 | Peter Singer on Maximizing Good for All Sentient Creatures

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

1:15:37Apr 20, 2026

350 | J. Eric Oliver on the Self and How to Know It

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

1:21:12Apr 13, 2026

AMA | April 2026

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

3:46:32Apr 5, 2026

349 | Daniel Harlow on What Quantum Gravity Teaches Us About Quantum Mechanics

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

1:25:33Mar 30, 2026

348 | Jessica Riskin on Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Life as Creative Agency

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

1:15:09Mar 23, 2026

347 | Andrew Guthrie Ferguson on How Your Data Will Be Used Against You

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

1:08:49Mar 16, 2026

346 | Erica Cartmill on How Human and Animal Minds Think and Play

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

1:28:21Mar 9, 2026

AMA | March 2026

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

3:53:23Mar 2, 2026

345 | Adam Elga on Being Rational in a Very Large Universe

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

1:34:44Feb 23, 2026

344 | Adam Gurri on Liberal Democracy and How to Fight For It

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

1:21:05Feb 16, 2026

343 | Tom Griffiths on The Laws of Thought

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

1:19:14Feb 9, 2026

AMA | Feb 2026

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

3:10:20Feb 2, 2026

342 | Rachell Powell on Evolutionary Convergence, Morality, and Mind

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

1:37:15Jan 26, 2026

341 | Stewart Brand on Maintenance as an Organizing Principle

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

1:12:41Jan 19, 2026

340 | Rebecca Newberger Goldstein on What Matters and Why It Matters

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

1:18:17Jan 12, 2026

339 | Ned Block on Whether Consciousness Requires Biology

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

1:11:02Jan 5, 2026

Holiday Message 2025 | The Romance of the University

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

42:51Dec 22, 2025

AMA | December 2025

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

3:36:44Dec 15, 2025

338 | Ryan Patterson on the Physics of Neutrinos

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

1:26:22Dec 8, 2025

337 | Kevin Zollman on Game Theory, Signals, and Meaning

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

1:17:38Dec 1, 2025

336 | Anil Ananthaswamy on the Mathematics of Neural Nets and AI

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

1:14:12Nov 24, 2025

AMA | November 2025

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

3:34:19Nov 17, 2025

335 | Andrew Jaffe on Models, Probability, and the Universe

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

1:17:40Nov 10, 2025

334 | Daniel Whiteson on the Physics of and by Aliens

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

1:14:22Nov 3, 2025

333 | Gordon Pennycook on Unthinkingness, Conspiracies, and What to Do About Them

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

1:10:22Oct 27, 2025

332 | Dmitri Tymoczko on the Mathematics Behind Music

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

1:21:12Oct 20, 2025

AMA | October 2025

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

3:37:19Oct 13, 2025

331 | Solo: Fine-Tuning, God, and the Multiverse

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

1:54:46Oct 6, 2025

330 | Petter Törnberg on the Dynamics of (Mis)Information

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

1:12:03Sep 29, 2025

329 | Steven Pinker on Rationality and Common Knowledge

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

1:16:34Sep 22, 2025

328 | Mary Roach on Replacing Parts of Our Bodies

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

1:07:21Sep 15, 2025

AMA | September 2025

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

3:30:05Sep 8, 2025

327 | Cass Sunstein on Liberalism

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

1:10:17Sep 1, 2025

326 | Natalie Batalha on What We Know and Will Learn About Exoplanets

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

1:12:13Aug 25, 2025