Sean Carroll: The Nature of the Universe, Life, and Intelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast #26

I really enjoyed this conversation with Sean. Here's the high-level outline: 0:00 - Introduction 2:21 - Understanding the universe and the mind 4:03 - Universe as an information processing system 9:34 - Simulation theory thought experiment 14:33 - Intelligent life in the observable universe 15:34 - Defining intelligent life 19:34 - SpaceX and space exploration 21:05 - Origin of life 29:40 - Interdisciplinary science and conversation

Huge fan of Sean’s. His book “something deeply hidden” is one of my all time favorites. His brain works on a completely different frequency . The way he grasps concepts, breaks them down and explains them while making it very easy to comprehend makes him invaluable to the scientific community. He just gets it. I’m so glad he’s been on podcasts like Fridmans and rogans, I have them on repeat often when I’m on a psychedelic adventure

I can never get tired of listening to Sean

Please have another one. This was awesome

Let's appreciate how lucky we are to be able to watch brilliant people , like Sean Carroll , talk about science... This wasn't really possible before YouTube.

Keep up the great podcast! Totally inspiring and broadens my view!

The ways this conversation flows is special. Amazing!!!

One of the best non-mathematical conversations I have ever heard. There is nothing wrong with including mathematics in a discussion, but when you do not, it doesn't mean you must dumb down the conversation completely. You did a really good job of balancing both ideas. Seeing the math in action is powerful, but by no means the only method to share ideas. Thank you for this!

Spending the next portion of my life trying to learn more and understand intellect, and intellectual thought. Really appreciate all you do, and many of your personal views. You make it easier to understand the conversation. For that, I thwnk you greatly.

Excellent episode. Asks (and answered) the most interesting questions other podcasts would have ignored, be too afraid to ask, or have the creativity to compose.

Omg when you said the audio recording died, my heart sank because I thought that some one had passed...

What predictions arise from the universe expanding and entangling qubits vs the universe birthing them? Also, please redo this convo asap, Sean is a truth bomb dispenser. All his answers were deep yet digestible. Amazing talk and I'm glad I at least got this glimpse of it. Thank you.

Definitely the singular guest I was most eagerly awaiting to join Lex. To think this episode in particular was cut short by technical difficulties is indeed something I'd rather attribute to the paranormal than describe my disappointment...damn those phantoms.

Wow, you can see Sean getting wiser, more open to stuff he is not sure or even opposed to. That's very heartening... cool!

Sean Caroll on Lex Fridman... maaaan, Christmas came early

here from JRE - very glad to hear you started your own channel. this is the first video i chose to watch and i love it 5min in. youtube wise you're doing it right. post video conversations in long form and make your own sharable cuts a long with the high-level outlines. I really enjoy it man great work. i'm a fan. i work as a software engineer dealing primarily with corporate solutions servicing and breaking into AI in the way of machine learning - preemptive tickets being opened before a server goes down and transferring to a failover and automating the logging, investigation and startup - its wild to think and explain where all of this should and can go. i find myself explaining to clients the interconnections and how triggers are set as well as how the machine learning evolves over time to better suit their eco-system and i see their eyes glaze over and awkwardly try to stop talking really before i even get started .. .needless to say your conversations here allow for that outlet and mind to run. just started my own company too refining and standardizing the implementation above - cheers man

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Is it just me, or does Sean Carroll feel like an actualized Simpsons character?

Lex you guys were gonna solve the mysteries of the world then the audio cut out. Thank you for the podcast, and what you do. It brings regular people closer to scientists that we may never have access to. Have a blessed year.

Thank you so much. It is such a pleasure to watch and listen to your conversations with all these interesting people.