Ep: 99 David Deutsch‘s ”The Beginning of Infinity” - a retrospective in 99 minutes
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Explanatory Knowledge
Explanatory knowledge reaches into areas creators of it can never quite imagine. Evolution by natural selection solved an important problem, that of the problem of the earance of design. A scientist is interested in only for it then to go on to solve problems elsewhere at different times. The problem of what the structure of the atom s eventually leads to uncovering the cause of radioactivity. And eventually leads to the possibility of generating electricity for hundreds of millions,. perhaps even billions, of people using nuclear visionryactions.
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