DiscoverStrange New Worlds: A Science & Star Trek PodcastEpisode 191: Mike on Sean Carroll's Mindscape
Episode 191: Mike on Sean Carroll's Mindscape

Episode 191: Mike on Sean Carroll's Mindscape

Update: 2025-11-08
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Mike beams aboard Sean Carroll's Mindscape Podcast to talk about astrobiology, the origins of life, complexity, and the proposal for a "law of increasing functional information."

Pre-order your copy of "Time's Second Arrow: Evolution, Order, and a New Law of Nature" by Robert M. Hazen & Michael L. Wong: https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324105480

Mike's 2023 paper "On the roles of function and selection in evolving systems": https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2310223120

Learn more about Mindscape: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/

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Episode 191: Mike on Sean Carroll's Mindscape

Episode 191: Mike on Sean Carroll's Mindscape

Michael L. Wong