Holiday Message: Reflections on Immortality
Podcast: Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and IdeasPublished On: Mon Dec 18 2023
Description: 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"
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