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Holiday Message: Reflections on Immortality
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The final Mindscape podcast of each year is devoted to a short, reflective Holiday Message. This year the theme is Immortality: whether it's an attractive idea, and whether the laws of physics and cosmology would allow for it in principle. (Spoiler: they do not.) Mindscape will return as usual on January 1, 2024. Happy holidays everyone!
Blog post with transcript: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2023/12/18/holiday-message-2023-reflections-on-immortality/
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Here are some of the stories and papers mentioned in the episode:
- Borges, "The Immortal"
- Barnes, A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters
- The Good Place
- Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others
- Dyson, "Time Without End: Physics and Biology in an Open Universe"
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Holiday Message: Reflections on Immortality
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Manage episode 390212810 series 2621923
The final Mindscape podcast of each year is devoted to a short, reflective Holiday Message. This year the theme is Immortality: whether it's an attractive idea, and whether the laws of physics and cosmology would allow for it in principle. (Spoiler: they do not.) Mindscape will return as usual on January 1, 2024. Happy holidays everyone!
Blog post with transcript: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2023/12/18/holiday-message-2023-reflections-on-immortality/
Support Mindscape on Patreon.
Here are some of the stories and papers mentioned in the episode:
- Borges, "The Immortal"
- Barnes, A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters
- The Good Place
- Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others
- Dyson, "Time Without End: Physics and Biology in an Open Universe"
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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