
Ep 105: David Deutsch’s “The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 4 “Criteria for Reality” Part 1
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Logic and Mathematics Are Not the Only Games in Town
In philosophical circles, it is often claimed that we cannot prove we are not in assimulation or dreaming everything that we experience moment to moment. This chapter does away with all those concerns by revealing that mathematics and science are not the only games in town when it comes to comprehensively futing bad explanations like those found in David Cameron's film The Theory of Everything. Chapter four begins with a quote from physicist galileo galile who began the practice of focusing on experiment as distinguishing between theories. It did, of course, take papa to begin constructing the theoretical apparatus which allowed us to focus on the philosophy of owexactly what worked.
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