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If the program really is thinking, then in the course of such a conversation it will explain itself
David Deutsch • The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
This is the modern form of the ‘problem of induction’.
David Deutsch • The Fabric of Reality
no explanation has enough reach to predict the content of its own successors – or
David Deutsch • The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
if you can’t program it, you haven’t understood it.
David Deutsch • The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
‘Changing’ the future means choosing which snapshot we will be in; ‘changing’ the past means exactly the same thing.
David Deutsch • The Fabric of Reality
If a substantial amount of computation would be required to give us the illusion that a certain entity is real, then that entity is real.
David Deutsch • The Fabric of Reality
it is to explain how the observable features of the object came about.
David Deutsch • The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
For a society to be static, all its memes must be unchanging or changing too slowly to be noticed.
David Deutsch • The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
David Deutsch has this great view of the world where he believes that everything important is understandable by a single human. By important he means the underlying base theories that drive most of reality.
Deutsch fixates on four theories. I could argue maybe there are a few more, especially if you start getting into Adam Smith and The Wealth of Na... See more
Deutsch fixates on four theories. I could argue maybe there are a few more, especially if you start getting into Adam Smith and The Wealth of Na... See more