Sean Carroll's Mindscape Transcripts
Free transcripts for 57 episodes of Sean Carroll's Mindscape. Open any episode to read the transcript excerpt — the complete transcript and AI summary are free by email.
347 | Andrew Guthrie Ferguson on How Your Data Will Be Used Against You
Mar 16, 202668 min13,116 words346 | Erica Cartmill on How Human and Animal Minds Think and Play
Mar 9, 202688 min16,060 wordsAMA | March 2026
Mar 2, 2026233 min42,104 words345 | Adam Elga on Being Rational in a Very Large Universe
Feb 23, 202694 min15,122 words344 | Adam Gurri on Liberal Democracy and How to Fight For It
Feb 16, 202681 min14,478 words343 | Tom Griffiths on The Laws of Thought
Feb 9, 202679 min15,452 wordsAMA | Feb 2026
Feb 2, 2026190 min32,892 words342 | Rachell Powell on Evolutionary Convergence, Morality, and Mind
Jan 26, 202697 min15,390 words341 | Stewart Brand on Maintenance as an Organizing Principle
Jan 19, 202672 min10,241 words340 | Rebecca Newberger Goldstein on What Matters and Why It Matters
Jan 12, 202678 min12,063 words339 | Ned Block on Whether Consciousness Requires Biology
Jan 5, 202671 min10,287 wordsHoliday Message 2025 | The Romance of the University
Dec 22, 202542 min7,022 words338 | Ryan Patterson on the Physics of Neutrinos
Dec 8, 202586 min14,463 words337 | Kevin Zollman on Game Theory, Signals, and Meaning
Dec 1, 202577 min15,088 words336 | Anil Ananthaswamy on the Mathematics of Neural Nets and AI
Nov 24, 202574 min12,783 wordsAMA | November 2025
Nov 17, 2025214 min39,456 words335 | Andrew Jaffe on Models, Probability, and the Universe
Nov 10, 202577 min14,294 words334 | Daniel Whiteson on the Physics of and by Aliens
Nov 3, 202574 min14,104 words333 | Gordon Pennycook on Unthinkingness, Conspiracies, and What to Do About Them
Oct 27, 202570 min13,756 words332 | Dmitri Tymoczko on the Mathematics Behind Music
Oct 20, 202581 min11,735 wordsAMA | October 2025
Oct 13, 2025217 min39,782 words331 | Solo: Fine-Tuning, God, and the Multiverse
Oct 6, 2025114 min20,091 words330 | Petter Törnberg on the Dynamics of (Mis)Information
Sep 29, 202572 min12,720 words329 | Steven Pinker on Rationality and Common Knowledge
Sep 22, 202576 min13,105 words328 | Mary Roach on Replacing Parts of Our Bodies
Sep 15, 202567 min11,320 wordsAMA | September 2025
Sep 8, 2025210 min38,697 words327 | Cass Sunstein on Liberalism
Sep 1, 202570 min10,359 words326 | Natalie Batalha on What We Know and Will Learn About Exoplanets
Aug 25, 202572 min11,594 words325 | Alvy Ray Smith on Pixar, Pixels, and the Great Digital Convergence
Aug 18, 202586 min13,967 words324 | Elizabeth Mynatt on Universities and the Importance of Basic Research
Aug 11, 202573 min11,703 wordsAMA | August 2025
Aug 4, 2025219 min38,930 words323 | Jacob Barandes on Indivisible Stochastic Quantum Mechanics
Jul 28, 2025178 min30,762 words322 | Philip Pettit on Language, Agency, Politics, and Freedom
Jul 21, 202580 min12,447 words321 | David Tong on Open Questions in Quantum Field Theory
Jul 14, 202579 min14,674 wordsAMA | July 2025
Jul 7, 2025243 min43,491 words320 | Solo: Complexity and the Universe
Jun 30, 2025134 min22,700 words319 | Bryan Van Norden on Philosophy From the Rest of the World
Jun 23, 202572 min11,867 words318 | Edward Miguel on the Developing Practice of Development Economics
Jun 16, 202580 min15,341 words317 | Nicole Rust on Why Neuroscience Hasn't Solved Brain Disorders
Jun 9, 202574 min13,634 wordsAMA | June 2025
Jun 2, 2025203 min36,956 words316 | Niayesh Afshordi and Phil Halper
May 26, 202588 min15,416 words315 | Branden Fitelson on the Logic and Use of Probability
May 19, 202588 min16,555 words314 | Karen Lloyd on the Deep Underground Biosphere
May 12, 202569 min12,395 words313 | Eric Topol on the Changing Face of Medicine and Aging
May 5, 202572 min11,544 wordsAMA | May 2025
Apr 28, 2025218 min39,005 words312 | Thomas Levenson on the Mutual History of Humans and Germs
Apr 21, 202591 min14,316 words311 | Annaka Harris on Whether Consciousness is Fundamental
Apr 14, 202569 min12,009 wordsAMA | April 2025
Apr 7, 2025210 min37,230 words310 | Marc Kamionkowski on Dark Energy and Cosmic Anomalies
Mar 31, 202586 min14,332 words309 | Christof Koch on Consciousness and Integrated Information
Mar 24, 202580 min13,595 words308 | Alison Gopnik on Children, AI, and Modes of Thinking
Mar 17, 202569 min12,569 wordsAMA | March 2025
Mar 10, 2025178 min32,018 words307 | Kevin Peterson on the Theory of Cocktails
Mar 3, 202576 min13,506 words306 | Helen Czerski on Our Energetic Oceans
Feb 24, 202572 min14,443 wordsBonus | Cuts to Science Funding and Why They Matter
Feb 12, 202570 min11,890 words303 | James P. Allison on Fighting Cancer with the Immune System
Jan 27, 202567 min11,364 words301 | Tina Eliassi-Rad on Al, Networks, and Epistemic Instability
Jan 13, 202569 min12,118 words
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