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Ep: 99 David Deutsch‘s ”The Beginning of Infinity” - a retrospective in 99 minutes

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How Knowledge Brings Us Closer to Reality

Inventing knowledge is a process of guessing what is true and then criticising those guesses, leading gradually to the production of good. Knowledge can be recorded in books or stored in computers - it can even appear in objects. In order to come closer to reality we need to put multiple objects between us and that reality. The perspiration phases of creativity can very much be altimated, and increasingly are. What's so important now is imagination, the inspiration part. That's all what science is about. Try to find a problem and fall in love with it, as papa says, and then attempt to find a solution,. unless you find a better problem along the way.

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