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David Deutsch on the infinite reach of knowledge

The TED Interview

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Knowledge Is Information That Has Causal Power

knowledge is something much broader than a world view. That is, that is included in a human mind. It's much broader than knowledge. Isn't just a matter of belief, and is not just amatter of human psychology. Knowledge is information that has a causal power. And the programme, indiana, has punched above its weight by a vast factor. Now humans can transcend that in at least two ways. One is that the amount of information in our brains is vastly more than the amount in our diena. So the dione has built up knowledge by evolution and so on, but we have added to that both by culture and by individual thinking. The brain simply holds or bits

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