
Ep 163: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 8 ”The Significance of Life” Part 2
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The Multiverse Is a Crystal in the Multiverse
Junk dna is more unique to you than the rest of your genome but it doesn't constitute evolutionary knowledge. If a bear exists here in this universe there are a lot of other universes adjacent to ours which also contain bears because he happens to have useful information that's a useful structure for evolution to have built. Knowledge bearing entities contain information information that is useful it tends to get itself copied and so therefore it is going to be replicated not only again and again in any given particular universe but across the multiverse. Information flow is what is happening in the multiverse because of the creation of knowledge both of the evolutionary kind and the explanatory kind.
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