Official podcast notes:
In this episode of the Waking Up podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Sean Carroll about our understanding of reality. They discuss consciousness, the many worlds view of quantum mechanics, the arrow of time, free will, facts and values, and other topics.
Housekeeping:
"I had an argument for most of what I was saying, and Klein did not." Sam maintains his blind spot and does not understand that Klein’s central argument is that the data is too fuzzy and too charged to draw conclusions from.
Is versus Ought: Sam takes a line reminiscent of the Jordan Peterson position that what is true includes what ought to be true, specifically not maximizing suffering for all humans.
Free will: they reach an understanding that there are two levels from which you can look at human behavior: the microscopic level, where there is no free will, and the macro level, where we believe that we have free will because nobody yet is capable of predicting our responses.
Carroll points out that in 500 years the big tragedy will be that nobody figured out what quantum mechanics means, although he is 100% convinced that quantum mechanics is right.
Also Carroll seems to think that an infinite number of infinities, the multi-universe theory, is less complicated then something like an extra, undetected, variable.
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