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Samuel Arbesman: Between Knowledge and Wonder S2 E9

Meditations with Zohar

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The Role of Imagination in Science

Naseem Taleb's image of the turkey that you know every day it's getting fed and then on the hundredth day it'sgetting shatted. So maybe the pushback that you would get on the science is progressing story is like it's progressing like the turkeys progressing. But then on day 100 something's going to come that's going to shatter the entire endeavor. I do think though we are hopefully asymptotically approaching the truth.

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