Ep 161: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 8 ”The Significance of Life”.
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Is Life a Fundamental Phenomenon of Nature?
When I was at university, we read lots of Stephen J Gould. He was a proponent of species selection and the selfish gene idea. But he was actually against the use of evolution to explain psychology. So it wasn't until I'd read the fabric of reality that I then read the selfish gene and the extended phenotype as well. David: Let's get into this really important stuff about the significance of life.
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