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Fallible Animals Episode 4: Intro to Constructor Theory

Fallible Animals

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Darwin's Theory of Knowledge Is Not Our Best Theory of Knowledge

Darwin's theory is all about explaining how the design that we see in the biosphere, this exquisite order, that's all around us, emerged without a designer. There's no equation that we can write down that predicts from bacteria several billion years ago, eventually humans will emerge. This also includes Richard Dawkins model of the self-esteem in which genes are the fundamental unit of biological evolution. Those genes that are most fit for the environment will propagate more of themselves over time into future generations.

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