Poetic Naturalism (Sean Carroll)

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1. So like which one of your quantum many worlds does this particular interpretation of naturalism you speak of belong too?
2. again, speaking as a fool. regarding multiverses --- is it possible to speak of experiences in THOSE realities? and if so, perhaps the laws of physics as such would be multiple as well....
3. I speak as a fool. Perhaps mankind's ability to delude himself can be some sort of necessary constant added to your encapsulated laws of physics? We communicate with each other couched within a certain amount of disbelief in their manifested life view already, right?
4. so if someone wants to chop your head off because he would go to paradise, then this contradicts the known laws of physics (i.e. that therecan be no paradise) even though the universe (i.e. the known laws of physics) is indifferent to whether he succeeds or not.
   Thus we can make an objective claim, that his moral code falls outside the circle of possible moral justification. So there is some room for making moral judgements within the limits of the known laws of the universe. I think this is what Sam Harris is saying, and I don't think Sean would disagree.
5. We are bound, however, not merely to state the true explanation but to account for the false one ...Aristotle (Ethics)
6. I've been saying all this for a while now, in my own narrative. I draw a boundary between the empirically verifiable world and the "spiritual" world which is that of human intent, desire, etc. That, plus the whole way you show the inter-relation of levels of reality, which also applies to the "spiritual" world of concepts.
7. Sean stands next to a fire exit that you're supposed to run to. There's a cute chick in the audience. Sean doesn't use bald-spot paint on the null-field on his head.
8. From my understanding, Sam Harris argued mainly that science can inform our moral reasoning, not that it would replace our moral reasoning. If morality is about enabling human flourishing and wellbeing, then science can help us ascertain facts to that end. But the valuing of human flourishing and well-being does not come from science. Still love this video, though.
9. Huh? You mean I can't bend spoons with my mind? Crap. There's goes my retirement job. Now I gotta rethink that whole bent spoon factory thing.
10. Sean Carrolls' science smells of Ludwig Wittgenstein.
11. Dang, they really didn't take a SHINE to his joke about the lack of sun in England...
12. I have watch this video a bunch of time and I never get tired of It.
13. Wish some who knew someone would get Sean Carroll to host the next season of Cosmos.
14. Марго?
15. The Jews dont like this. Nobody can be smarter than the Jews. Thats anti-semitism!
16. EXPLAIN THE NDE OF PAM REYNOLDS AND I'LL SHUT UP AND GO AWAY. BUT NOT TILL U DO SEAN,
17. SO WE KNOW ABOUT LITTLE TINY THINGS SEAN ???????????????? SO WHAT ? HOWS THAT YOUR CLAIM OF NO GOD ?
18. The poetry of Science and reality :-)
19. I see what Sean is saying here but I'm not sure I completely agree.  Life has the singular purpose of propagating its own kind.  And I think that you could take physics plus the goal of maximizing human self-propagation into the distant future, turn the crank, and generate a morality that leads to maximizing that goal.  To the extent that the morality that we actually follow differs from that maximum, humanity will be the lesser.
20. bullshit lecture. you can't know what you are missing