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Sean Carroll MindScape
Sean Carroll MindScape
440 episodes · by Sean Carroll | Wondery
About Sean Carroll MindScape
Sean Carroll MindScape is a podcast with 440 episodes in the PodLexicon database, each accompanied by a full searchable transcript and AI-generated summary. Ever wanted to know how music affects your brain, what quantum mechanics really is, or how black holes work? Do you wonder why you get emotional each time you see a certain movie, or how on earth video games are designed? Then you’ve come to the right place. Each week, Sean Carroll will host conversations with some of the most interesting thinkers in the world. From neuroscientists and engineers to authors and television producers, Sean and his guests talk about the biggest ideas in science, ... PodLexicon indexes every episode of Sean Carroll MindScape and turns each one into a searchable AI summary — find the episode that covers a topic, track how that topic evolved over time, or compare what different guests said about it.
Topics Covered on Sean Carroll MindScape
Black Hole Information Paradox Multiple Levels of Explanation
Notable Guests on Sean Carroll MindScape
Recent Episodes
364 | Stuart Firestein on How Science Relies on Ignorance and Failure — August 17, 2026363 | Chandra Sripada on How LLMs and Humans are Cognitive Cousins — August 10, 2026Mindscape Ask Me Anything, Sean Carroll | August 2026 — August 03, 2026362 | Luis Bettencourt on the Universal Properties of Self-Organizing Cities — July 27, 2026361 | Bonnie Bassler on How Bacteria Talk and Work Together — July 20, 2026Mindscape Ask Me Anything, Sean Carroll | July 2026 — July 13, 2026360 | Marc Berman on the Science of Touching Grass — July 06, 2026359 | Solo: Theories of Dark Energy — June 29, 2026358 | Solo: Vacuum Energy and the Cosmological Constant — June 22, 2026357 | Jeff Coller on mRNA, Vaccines, and Bespoke Therapeutics — June 15, 2026356 | Andrea Wulf on Enlightenment, Nature, Romanticism, and Modernity — June 08, 2026AMA | June 2026 — June 01, 2026355 | Solo: Looking Quantum Mechanics in the Eyeball — May 24, 2026354 | Christian List on Free Will and Levels of Reality — May 18, 2026353 | Alvin Roth on the Economics of Morally Contested Markets — May 11, 2026AMA | May 2026 — May 04, 2026352 | Bing Brunton on Connecting the Connectome to the Body — April 27, 2026351 | Peter Singer on Maximizing Good for All Sentient Creatures — April 20, 2026350 | J. Eric Oliver on the Self and How to Know It — April 13, 2026AMA | April 2026 — April 05, 2026349 | Daniel Harlow on What Quantum Gravity Teaches Us About Quantum Mechanics — March 30, 2026348 | Jessica Riskin on Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Life as Creative Agency — March 23, 2026347 | Andrew Guthrie Ferguson on How Your Data Will Be Used Against You — March 16, 2026346 | Erica Cartmill on How Human and Animal Minds Think and Play — March 09, 2026AMA | March 2026 — March 02, 2026345 | Adam Elga on Being Rational in a Very Large Universe — February 23, 2026344 | Adam Gurri on Liberal Democracy and How to Fight For It — February 16, 2026343 | Tom Griffiths on The Laws of Thought — February 09, 2026AMA | Feb 2026 — February 02, 2026342 | Rachell Powell on Evolutionary Convergence, Morality, and Mind — January 26, 2026341 | Stewart Brand on Maintenance as an Organizing Principle — January 19, 2026340 | Rebecca Newberger Goldstein on What Matters and Why It Matters — January 12, 2026339 | Ned Block on Whether Consciousness Requires Biology — January 05, 2026Holiday Message 2025 | The Romance of the University — December 22, 2025AMA | December 2025 — December 15, 2025338 | Ryan Patterson on the Physics of Neutrinos — December 08, 2025337 | Kevin Zollman on Game Theory, Signals, and Meaning — December 01, 2025336 | Anil Ananthaswamy on the Mathematics of Neural Nets and AI — November 24, 2025AMA | November 2025 — November 17, 2025335 | Andrew Jaffe on Models, Probability, and the Universe — November 10, 2025334 | Daniel Whiteson on the Physics of and by Aliens — November 03, 2025333 | Gordon Pennycook on Unthinkingness, Conspiracies, and What to Do About Them — October 27, 2025332 | Dmitri Tymoczko on the Mathematics Behind Music — October 20, 2025AMA | October 2025 — October 13, 2025331 | Solo: Fine-Tuning, God, and the Multiverse — October 06, 2025330 | Petter Törnberg on the Dynamics of (Mis)Information — September 29, 2025329 | Steven Pinker on Rationality and Common Knowledge — September 22, 2025328 | Mary Roach on Replacing Parts of Our Bodies — September 15, 2025AMA | September 2025 — September 08, 2025327 | Cass Sunstein on Liberalism — September 01, 2025
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