The way superheroes dominate the fictional landscape now, along with dystopian futures and zombies. Yeah, definitely – I think these stories function as a kind of mythology for us.
ADAM FRANKRight now, culturally, we’re seeing a really interesting evolution in ideas about spirituality and the world, right?
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There’s not a single shred of evidence for the multiverse. If, in order to explain this universe, you need a theory that invents an infinite number of parallel universes – that’s not a very good theory.
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It is the dialogue that lets the brilliance of the diamond’s infinite facets shine clearly. It is the dialogue that instills within us a power and capacity that is, and always has been, saturated with meaning.
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The number of people who consider themselves to be religious and going to services is dropping, and the number of people who consider themselves to be spiritual but not religious is increasing.
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New laws, new kinds of things can emerge as the universe evolves.
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It’s not like the world is becoming hardcore, Richard Dawkins-atheist, but people are looking to sort of synthesize science – people love science, especially the millennials.
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People love science and all it offers, but they also feel a calling in themselves to the sense of what’s deeper.
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Right now, culturally, we’re seeing a really interesting evolution in ideas about spirituality and the world, right?
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I’m found of what’s called emergence – as the universe gets more complex, new laws can emerge. Like evolution – there’s things that you just aren’t able to explain, even if you had an understanding of atoms.
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Rather than make claims of final theories, perhaps we should focus on our ever-continuing dialogue with the universe.
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The more moving parts you have in something, the more possibilities there are.
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Scientists and artists are both living in the cultural milieu that they come up in. They’re always responding to what is happening culturally.
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As I’ve gotten older, I’ve also become sensitive to the ways – to all that is not amenable to explanation. Things that, even if you had an explanation, what good would it be?
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The ideas always have to be in service of the story. And that’s what Scott and the writers did – they weren’t trying to beat you over the head with an idea; they had a story they wanted to tell, and they had ideas
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Millennials, in particular, consider themselves to be spiritual, but they’re not necessarily going to anybody’s church.
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There’s a whole new science now of complexity, and what we see is that complexity requires a very different approach than the kind of bottom-up approach that fundamental physics has always used.
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