Sean Carroll's Mindscape

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.

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Every guest on Sean Carroll's Mindscape

345 guests, ranked by how many people never want them back.

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   Nate Silver

   285 | Nate Silver on Prediction, Risk, and Rationality · Aug 2024

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   Brian Klaas

   189 | Brian Klaas on Power and the Temptation of Corruption · Mar 2022

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   Hannah Ritchie

   252 | Hannah Ritchie on Keeping Hope for the Planet Alive · Oct 2023

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   Robert Sapolsky

   134 | Robert Sapolsky on Why We Behave the Way We Do · Feb 2021

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   Anil Seth

   168 | Anil Seth on Emergence, Information, and Consciousness · Oct 2021

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   Paul Bloom

   34 | Paul Bloom on Empathy, Rationality, Morality, and Cruelty · Feb 2019

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   Steven Pinker

   329 | Steven Pinker on Rationality and Common Knowledge · Sep 2025

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   Carl Zimmer

   8 | Carl Zimmer on Heredity, DNA, and Editing Genes · Aug 2018

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   Stuart Russell

   94 | Stuart Russell on Making Artificial Intelligence Compatible with Humans · Apr 2020

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    Julia Galef

    143 | Julia Galef on Openness, Bias, and Rationality · Apr 2021

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    Nicholas Christakis

    49 | Nicholas Christakis on Humanity, Biology, and What Makes Us Good · Jun 2019

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    Michael Mann

    65 | Michael Mann on Why Our Climate Is Changing and How We Know · Sep 2019

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    Wynton Marsalis

    12 | Wynton Marsalis on Jazz, Time, and America · Sep 2018

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    Seth MacFarlane

    58 | Seth MacFarlane on Using Science Fiction to Explore Humanity · Aug 2019

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    Reza Aslan

    154 | Reza Aslan on Religion, Metaphor, and Meaning · Jul 2021

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    Maria Konnikova

    102 | Maria Konnikova on Poker, Psychology, and Reason · Jun 2020

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    Eric Topol

    313 | Eric Topol on the Changing Face of Medicine and Aging · May 2025

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    Nita Farahany

    229 | Nita Farahany on Ethics, Law, and Neurotechnology · Mar 2023

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    Jared Diamond

    367 | Jared Diamond on the Course of History and the Role of leaders · Sep 2026

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    Ed Yong

    201 | Ed Yong on How Animals Sense the World · Jun 2022

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    David Deutsch

    253 | David Deutsch on Science, Complexity, and Explanation · Oct 2023

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    Daryl Morey

    138 | Daryl Morey on Analytics, Psychology, and Basketball · Mar 2021

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    Helen Czerski

    306 | Helen Czerski on Our Energetic Oceans · Feb 2025

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    John Preskill

    153 | John Preskill on Quantum Computers and What They're Good For · Jun 2021

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    Mary Roach

    328 | Mary Roach on Replacing Parts of Our Bodies · Sep 2025

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    Adam Riess

    118 | Adam Riess on the Expansion of the Universe and a Crisis in Cosmology · Oct 2020

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    Andy Clark

    235 | Andy Clark on the Extended and Predictive Mind · May 2023

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    Cass Sunstein

    327 | Cass Sunstein on Liberalism · Sep 2025

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    Christof Koch

    309 | Christof Koch on Consciousness and Integrated Information · Mar 2025

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    Cory Doctorow

    69 | Cory Doctorow on Technology, Monopoly, and the Future of the Internet · Oct 2019

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    Daniel Dennett

    78 | Daniel Dennett on Minds, Patterns, and the Scientific Image · Jan 2020

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    Daron Acemoglu

    283 | Daron Acemoglu on Technology, Inequality, and Power · Jul 2024

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    David Chalmers

    25 | David Chalmers on Consciousness, the Hard Problem, and Living in a Simulation · Dec 2018

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    David Krakauer

    242 | David Krakauer on Complexity, Agency, and Information · Jul 2023

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    Gary Marcus

    184 | Gary Marcus on Artificial Intelligence and Common Sense · Feb 2022

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    Geoffrey West

    5 | Geoffrey West on Networks, Scaling, and the Pace of Life · Jul 2018

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    Judea Pearl

    196 | Judea Pearl on Cause and Effect · May 2022

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    Michele Gelfand

    62 | Michele Gelfand on Tight and Loose Societies and People · Sep 2019

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    Olga Khazan

    98 | Olga Khazan on Living and Flourishing While Being Weird · May 2020

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    Robin Carhart-Harris

    82 | Robin Carhart-Harris on Psychedelics and the Brain · Feb 2020

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