Sean Carroll
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Colin Camerer on the Neuroscience of Economic Thinking | Mindscape 373
Blog post with audio player, show notes, and transcript: Economics often starts with an assumption that people are rational maximizers of their own self-interest; but it doesn't stop there.
Erik Winfree on DNA Robots and Computers | Mindscape 272
Blog post with audio player, show notes, and transcript: When we think of computers, we think of machines running on some kind of silicon chips.
Kyle Harper on How Humans Have Shaped Life on Earth | Mindscape 371
Blog post with audio player, show notes, and transcript: Humanity is merely one species out of millions living on Earth, but we have a disproportionate impact on the rest of the biosphere.
Mindscape Ask Me Anything, Sean Carroll | October 2026
Blog post with audio player, show notes, and transcript: Welcome to the October 2026 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape!
Daniel Akerib on a Faint Hint of Dark Matter | Mindscape 370
Blog post with audio player, show notes, and transcript: One reason it's been so hard to directly detect the dark matter is that we're not sure what it is.
Gregg Caruso on Living Well Without Free Will | Mindscape 369
Blog post with audio player, show notes, and transcript: The worry about debates over free will is that they degenerate into semantics -- what do you mean by "free will," really?
Elizabeth Alexander on Why Democracy Needs Imagination | Mindscape 368
Blog post with audio player, show notes, and transcript: In all sorts of ways, the modern world makes it difficult to nurture our individual humanity and connect with the humanity of others.
Mindscape Ask Me Anything, Sean Carroll | September 2026
Blog post with audio player, show notes, and transcript: Welcome to the September 2026 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape!
Jared Diamond on the Course of History and the Role of Leaders | Mindscape 367
Blog post with audio player, show notes, and transcript: The course of history is affected by many things, including the political and social situations of large groups of people, their biological and…
363 | Chandra Sripada on How LLMs and Humans are Cognitive Cousins
Large Language Models display an uncanny ability to construct human-sounding speech, and can synthesize concepts in novel ways.