[FRIAM] Sean x Carrol

[Barry MacKichan]

One of the (trivial, granted) ways the universe amuses me is that there 
are two Sean Carrols, one of whom authored ‘Endless Forms Most 
Beautiful’. I first heard of that book on a Friday morning at St. 
John’s. The are both prominent in their fields (physics and biology) 
and are very good popularizers.

At times, when my critical faculties are sleeping, I can imagine that at 
some point the universe split and re-merged with itself and that the 
Sean Carrols represent a glitch in the merging process. That would 
explain that there are two of them, very similar in many ways and yet 
distinct.

—Barry

On 19 Jul 2021, at 21:42, David Eric Smith wrote:

> Anyway, what came up today was a Sean Carroll interview with Wolfram, 
> which fronts hypergraphs as Wolfram’s base-level abstraction.  It 
> is a couple 
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