David Deutsch on the infinite reach of knowledge
The TED Interview
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Is That the Right Way to Think of Knowledge?
Karl popo: In our infinite ignorance, we are all alike. The more we know, the more we know we don't know. Human minds and explanatory knowledge has a special relationship with the laws of nature. We can look up in the sky and see a cold, tiny dot of what looks like cold white light - but it's actually a star that is one million miles across. And if we went there, be fried to a crisp.
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