Ep 100: David Deutsch
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Is There a Super Intelligence?
The human mind is radically different to any other kind of programme that we've hitherto encountered. It's an algaritm of a kind, and its statements need to be consistent or the computer programm itself isn't going to run. And maybe this is what is needed in order to go some way to explaining what's going on here with our creativity. The idea that even if there were other kinds of creativity prior to us, what we have is a kind of creativity which allows us to create knowledge. We wouldn't understand it. Even if they could bring it to us, we wouldn’t understand it. There are many theories about such entities, whether they be snalians
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