Ep 105: David Deutsch’s “The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 4 “Criteria for Reality” Part 1
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The Inquisition's Theory Is a Consolidation of the Geocentric Theory
We have arrived at this conclusion not by judging the inquisition's theory against modern cosmology, which would have been a circular argument. We are right to regard it as a convoluted elaboration of the heliocentric theory rather than vice versa. It stands on the same logical footing as these ideas about solopsism. Both postulate reality beyond which we have no access, experimentally, scientifically and perhaps even using our reason. What we say is that the only thing we have access to are the contents of the simulation, or the dream, or the deceptions caused by an evil demon.
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