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Sean Carroll's Mindscape · March 25, 2024 · 70m
270 | Solo: The Coming Transition in How Humanity Lives
Sean Carroll's solo lecture from the Johns Hopkins Natural Philosophy Forum. How humanity's way of life is approaching a fundamental transition driven by AI, climate change, and demographic shifts. The next century will be unlike any previous century.
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Carroll: AI and climate change will fundamentally reshape the human environment — not just physical but informational, economic, and social. This environmental transformation will reshape human behavior at civilizational scale.
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Carroll: during civilizational transitions, old sources of meaning collapse before new ones emerge. The challenge is maintaining meaning-from-responsibility during the interregnum — when old responsibilities feel obsolete but new ones haven't crystallized.
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