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Holiday Message: Reflections on Immortality
· 56 min · Bonus
Episode Holiday Message: Reflections on Immortality
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"
Links in the notes 7
- https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2023/12/18/holiday-message-2023-reflections-on-immortality/
- https://www.patreon.com/seanmcarroll
- https://matiane.wordpress.com/2019/10/11/immortal-by-jorge-luis-borges/
- https://bookshop.org/p/books/a-history-of-the-world-in-10-1-2-chapters-julian-barnes/6702782?ean=9780679731375
- https://www.netflix.com/title/80113701
- https://bookshop.org/p/books/stories-of-your-life-and-others-lib-e-ted-chiang/16687839?ean=9781101972120
- https://www.panspermia.org/revmodphys.51.447.pdf
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