320 | Solo: Complexity and the Universe

Hello everyone and welcome to the Mindscape Podcast. I'm your host, Sean Carroll. Podcasting, like the subject of today's episode, is a complex system. Many things happen. You cannot always know what is going on.

Sometimes the schedule kind of gets away from you, and you decide that this would be the right time for a solo episode. This is a fancy way of saying that I'm behind on actually recording episodes because of various things that happened. So why not just do it myself. That's always a strategy that is available to us.

And I'm recording this from Santa Fe, New Mexico, where I'm doing one of my regular visits to the Santa Fe Institute as part of being a fractal faculty there. So complexity is on my mind. We had a a very nice meeting just last week on science and history. both of things which involve complexity in different ways and it was uh stimulating to hear historians and scientists come together. But what I've been thinking about for a long time is complexity and the universe.

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