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Special Edition: Theory of Anything Hosts David Deutsch

The Theory of Anything

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The Importance of Fine Terminology

There is such a thing as artistic beauty, which is often mixed with other values that we want to put into an object. If somebody was interested in understanding the distinction there more deeply, then they would probably find themselves inventing a more refined terminology for it. And maybe we shouldn't get hung up on whether that is really beauty, it has kind of essentialism to ask that. The thing is that there are many features of an object that are desirable, and the cave paintings are desirable in one sense and are clearly rubbish in anotherSense. We don't live an infinite life. But I guess there is a sense of like, we want to create these best, the best memes that we

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