The brain is the only kind of object capable of understanding that the cosmos is even there, or why there are infinitely many prime numbers, or that apples fall because of the curvature of space-time, or that obeying its own inborn instincts can be morally wrong, or that it itself exists.
Despite the unrivaled empirical success of quantum theory, the very suggestion that it may be literally true as a description of nature is still gree… - David Deutsch
Despite the unrivaled empirical success of quantum theory, the very suggestion that it may be literally true as a description of nature is still gree…
- David Deutsch
If you can’t program it, you haven’t understood it. - David Deutsch
If you can’t program it, you haven’t understood it.
Discovering a new explanation is inherently an act of creativity. - David Deutsch
Discovering a new explanation is inherently an act of creativity.
Is the human race a universal constructor? - David Deutsch
Is the human race a universal constructor?
Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense... - David Deutsch
Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense...
If we can't program it, we can't understand it. - David Deutsch
If we can't program it, we can't understand it.
Base metals can be transmuted into gold by stars, and by intelligent beings who understand the processes that power stars, but by nothing else in the… - David Deutsch
Base metals can be transmuted into gold by stars, and by intelligent beings who understand the processes that power stars, but by nothing else in the…
The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests. - David Deutsch
The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests.
Feeling insignificant because the universe is large has exactly the same logic as feeling inadequate for not being a cow. - David Deutsch
Feeling insignificant because the universe is large has exactly the same logic as feeling inadequate for not being a cow.
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