# Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas A podcast by Sean Carroll. 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, philosophy, culture and much more. Feed: https://rss.libsyn.com/shows/604590/destinations/5264190.xml ## Latest episodes - [372 | Erik Winfree on DNA Computers and Robots](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1406534739/714e468d5d11) (2026-10-26, 78 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/1d1ac211-8392-45fe-82db-99fa7f77076e/erik_winfree.mp3?dest-id=5264190 - [371 | Kyle Harper on How Humans Have Shaped Life on Earth](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1406534739/7d9e179df962) (2026-10-19, 86 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/1d1ac211-8392-45fe-82db-99fa7f77076e/kyle_harper.mp3?dest-id=5264190 - [Ask Me Anything | October 2026](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1406534739/207275149b59) (2026-10-12, 212 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/1d1ac211-8392-45fe-82db-99fa7f77076e/ama_October_2026.mp3?dest-id=5264190 - [370 | Daniel Akerib on a Faint Hint of Dark Matter](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1406534739/9233ecc7e5e9) (2026-10-03, 77 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/1d1ac211-8392-45fe-82db-99fa7f77076e/daniel_akerib.mp3?dest-id=5264190 - [369 | Gregg Caruso on Living Well Without Free Will](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1406534739/d6844f2b6235) (2026-09-28, 84 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/1d1ac211-8392-45fe-82db-99fa7f77076e/gregg_caruso.mp3?dest-id=5264190 - [368 | Elizabeth Alexander on Why Democracy Needs Imagination](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1406534739/8a92e344f5d6) (2026-09-21, 69 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/1d1ac211-8392-45fe-82db-99fa7f77076e/elizabeth_alexander.mp3?dest-id=5264190 - [Mindscape Ask Me Anything, Sean Carroll | September 2026](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1406534739/a6e3aec93728) (2026-09-14, 233 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/1d1ac211-8392-45fe-82db-99fa7f77076e/ama_sept_2026.mp3?dest-id=5264190 - [367 | Jared Diamond on the Course of History and the Role of leaders](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1406534739/789e85aa48c4) (2026-09-07, 78 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/1d1ac211-8392-45fe-82db-99fa7f77076e/jared_diamond.mp3?dest-id=5264190 - [366 | Jim Al-Khalili on Time, Quantum, Biology, and Cosmology](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1406534739/b0023e711dd0) (2026-08-31, 76 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/1d1ac211-8392-45fe-82db-99fa7f77076e/jim_al-khalili.mp3?dest-id=5264190 - [365 | Vitor Cardoso on Why Black Holes Are Special](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1406534739/e140cb95f2df) (2026-08-24, 66 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/1d1ac211-8392-45fe-82db-99fa7f77076e/vitor_cardoso.mp3?dest-id=5264190 - [364 | Stuart Firestein on How Science Relies on Ignorance and Failure](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1406534739/e3f3a66b1e82) (2026-08-17, 77 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/1d1ac211-8392-45fe-82db-99fa7f77076e/stuart_firestein.mp3?dest-id=5264190 - [363 | Chandra Sripada on How LLMs and Humans are Cognitive Cousins](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1406534739/9670879b8c69) (2026-08-10, 112 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/1d1ac211-8392-45fe-82db-99fa7f77076e/chandra_sripada.mp3?dest-id=5264190 - [Mindscape Ask Me Anything, Sean Carroll | August 2026](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1406534739/45104aa42918) (2026-08-03, 238 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/1d1ac211-8392-45fe-82db-99fa7f77076e/ama_August_2026.mp3?dest-id=5264190 - [362 | Luis Bettencourt on the Universal Properties of Self-Organizing Cities](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1406534739/d9151310566b) (2026-07-27, 81 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/1d1ac211-8392-45fe-82db-99fa7f77076e/luis_bettencourt.mp3?dest-id=5264190 - [361 | Bonnie Bassler on How Bacteria Talk and Work Together](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1406534739/8ca127f67fe3) (2026-07-20, 76 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/1d1ac211-8392-45fe-82db-99fa7f77076e/bonnie_bassler.mp3?dest-id=5264190 - [Mindscape Ask Me Anything, Sean Carroll | July 2026](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1406534739/4f42368f7778) (2026-07-13, 244 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/1d1ac211-8392-45fe-82db-99fa7f77076e/ama_July_2026.mp3?dest-id=5264190 - [360 | Marc Berman on the Science of Touching Grass](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1406534739/b739bec662cc) (2026-07-06, 90 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/1d1ac211-8392-45fe-82db-99fa7f77076e/marc_berman.mp3?dest-id=5264190 - [359 | Solo: Theories of Dark Energy](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1406534739/b70a88c8f475) (2026-06-29, 117 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/1d1ac211-8392-45fe-82db-99fa7f77076e/solo-DE-2.mp3?dest-id=5264190 - [358 | Solo: Vacuum Energy and the Cosmological Constant](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1406534739/73351127631f) (2026-06-22, 120 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/1d1ac211-8392-45fe-82db-99fa7f77076e/solo-DE-1.mp3?dest-id=5264190 - [357 | Jeff Coller on mRNA, Vaccines, and Bespoke Therapeutics](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1406534739/fa9ceaa1a95c) (2026-06-15, 80 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/1d1ac211-8392-45fe-82db-99fa7f77076e/Jeff_Coller.mp3?dest-id=5264190 - [356 | Andrea Wulf on Enlightenment, Nature, Romanticism, and Modernity](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1406534739/b61754895380) (2026-06-08, 78 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/1d1ac211-8392-45fe-82db-99fa7f77076e/andrea_wulf.mp3?dest-id=5264190 - [AMA | June 2026](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1406534739/d65f6ec6f674) (2026-06-01, 238 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/1d1ac211-8392-45fe-82db-99fa7f77076e/ama_June_2026.mp3?dest-id=5264190 - [355 | Solo: Looking Quantum Mechanics in the Eyeball](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1406534739/1dcc0749ed99) (2026-05-24, 105 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/1d1ac211-8392-45fe-82db-99fa7f77076e/solo-austere.mp3?dest-id=5264190 - [354 | Christian List on Free Will and Levels of Reality](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1406534739/da1d0802bd28) (2026-05-18, 87 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/1d1ac211-8392-45fe-82db-99fa7f77076e/christian_list.mp3?dest-id=5264190 - [353 | Alvin Roth on the Economics of Morally Contested Markets](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1406534739/f2bfc3fd818e) (2026-05-11, 72 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/1d1ac211-8392-45fe-82db-99fa7f77076e/alvin_roth.mp3?dest-id=5264190 - [AMA | May 2026](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1406534739/e423543b4c0c) (2026-05-04, 247 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/1d1ac211-8392-45fe-82db-99fa7f77076e/ama_May_2026.mp3?dest-id=5264190 - [352 | Bing Brunton on Connecting the Connectome to the Body](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1406534739/b60685bbafa5) (2026-04-27, 75 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/1d1ac211-8392-45fe-82db-99fa7f77076e/bing_brunton.mp3?dest-id=5264190 - [351 | Peter Singer on Maximizing Good for All Sentient Creatures](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1406534739/9e0d004cb83a) (2026-04-20, 76 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/1d1ac211-8392-45fe-82db-99fa7f77076e/peter_singer.mp3?dest-id=5264190 - [350 | J. Eric Oliver on the Self and How to Know It](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1406534739/b1ca8d7b04be) (2026-04-13, 82 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/1d1ac211-8392-45fe-82db-99fa7f77076e/eric_oliver.mp3?dest-id=5264190 - [AMA | April 2026](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1406534739/f268b916b43b) (2026-04-05, 227 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/1d1ac211-8392-45fe-82db-99fa7f77076e/ama_April_2026.mp3?dest-id=5264190 - [349 | Daniel Harlow on What Quantum Gravity Teaches Us About Quantum Mechanics](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1406534739/dd71485aab98) (2026-03-30, 86 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/1d1ac211-8392-45fe-82db-99fa7f77076e/daniel_harlow.mp3?dest-id=5264190 - [348 | Jessica Riskin on Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Life as Creative Agency](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1406534739/24fb8105abdd) (2026-03-23, 76 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/1d1ac211-8392-45fe-82db-99fa7f77076e/jessica_riskin.mp3?dest-id=5264190 - [347 | Andrew Guthrie Ferguson on How Your Data Will Be Used Against You](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1406534739/1d44965ceb74) (2026-03-16, 69 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/1d1ac211-8392-45fe-82db-99fa7f77076e/andrew_guthrie_ferguson.mp3?dest-id=5264190 - [346 | Erica Cartmill on How Human and Animal Minds Think and Play](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1406534739/d73317b9526e) (2026-03-09, 89 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/1d1ac211-8392-45fe-82db-99fa7f77076e/erica_cartmill.mp3?dest-id=5264190 - [AMA | March 2026](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1406534739/9e938590229d) (2026-03-02, 234 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/1d1ac211-8392-45fe-82db-99fa7f77076e/ama_March_2026.mp3?dest-id=5264190 - [345 | Adam Elga on Being Rational in a Very Large Universe](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1406534739/0bac4d1052d8) (2026-02-23, 95 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/1d1ac211-8392-45fe-82db-99fa7f77076e/adam_elga.mp3?dest-id=5264190 - [344 | Adam Gurri on Liberal Democracy and How to Fight For It](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1406534739/7267cfaff33d) (2026-02-16, 82 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/1d1ac211-8392-45fe-82db-99fa7f77076e/adam_gurri.mp3?dest-id=5264190 - [343 | Tom Griffiths on The Laws of Thought](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1406534739/2ceb9f3748ea) (2026-02-09, 80 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/1d1ac211-8392-45fe-82db-99fa7f77076e/tom_griffiths.mp3?dest-id=5264190 - [AMA | Feb 2026](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1406534739/51a555bd2d90) (2026-02-02, 191 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/1d1ac211-8392-45fe-82db-99fa7f77076e/ama_Feb_2026.mp3?dest-id=5264190 - [342 | Rachell Powell on Evolutionary Convergence, Morality, and Mind](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1406534739/297c1d81853b) (2026-01-26, 98 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/1d1ac211-8392-45fe-82db-99fa7f77076e/rachell20powell.mp3?dest-id=5264190 - [341 | Stewart Brand on Maintenance as an Organizing Principle](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1406534739/b6cbf67ed5d9) (2026-01-19, 73 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/1d1ac211-8392-45fe-82db-99fa7f77076e/stewart20brand.mp3?dest-id=5264190 - [340 | Rebecca Newberger Goldstein on What Matters and Why It Matters](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1406534739/be579cf210fd) (2026-01-12, 79 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/1d1ac211-8392-45fe-82db-99fa7f77076e/rebecca20goldstein.mp3?dest-id=5264190 - [339 | Ned Block on Whether Consciousness Requires Biology](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1406534739/8e2ac4c32d8a) (2026-01-05, 72 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/1d1ac211-8392-45fe-82db-99fa7f77076e/ned20block.mp3?dest-id=5264190 - [Holiday Message 2025 | The Romance of the University](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1406534739/373044685599) (2025-12-22, 43 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/1d1ac211-8392-45fe-82db-99fa7f77076e/romance20university.mp3?dest-id=5264190 - [AMA | December 2025](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1406534739/6dcb49d69b9b) (2025-12-15, 217 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/1d1ac211-8392-45fe-82db-99fa7f77076e/ama20Dec202025.mp3?dest-id=5264190 - [338 | Ryan Patterson on the Physics of Neutrinos](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1406534739/3f1fbb628ba4) (2025-12-08, 87 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/1d1ac211-8392-45fe-82db-99fa7f77076e/ryan20patterson.mp3?dest-id=5264190 - [337 | Kevin Zollman on Game Theory, Signals, and Meaning](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1406534739/ce3f73993d00) (2025-12-01, 78 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/1d1ac211-8392-45fe-82db-99fa7f77076e/kevin20zollman.mp3?dest-id=5264190 - [336 | Anil Ananthaswamy on the Mathematics of Neural Nets and AI](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1406534739/986cfa200608) (2025-11-24, 75 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/1d1ac211-8392-45fe-82db-99fa7f77076e/anil20ananthaswamy.mp3?dest-id=5264190 - [AMA | November 2025](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1406534739/32890004550d) (2025-11-17, 215 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/1d1ac211-8392-45fe-82db-99fa7f77076e/ama20Nov202025.mp3?dest-id=5264190 - [335 | Andrew Jaffe on Models, Probability, and the Universe](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1406534739/4490b6478de5) (2025-11-10, 78 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/1d1ac211-8392-45fe-82db-99fa7f77076e/andrew20jaffe.mp3?dest-id=5264190 Shows are listed from Apple Podcasts' charts and directory, and Podcast Index where it is used. 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