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David Deutsch: Knowledge Creation and The Human Race, Part 1

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Is There a Difference Between Evolution and Human Creativity?

You have a beautiful definition of knowledge, which most people don't even try and tackle. Successful, highly adapted genes contain a lot of knowledge so they cause themselves to be replicated as their survivors. The things that create knowledge are uniquely influential in the universe. And as far as we know, there are only two systems that create knowledge. There's evolution, and there's humans. But there's a difference even between these two forms of knowledge creation,. Between evolution and between humans? Yes, I have argued that the human way of creating knowledge is the ultimate one. That there aren't any more powerful ones than that.

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