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Constructor Theory of Information with David Deutsch

Fallible Animals

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The Constructive Theory of Information

Theory of information could be modified without making the rest of constructive theory fall. It's just that it could only be modified in a way that was compatible with the rest of the theory. The laws of physics have to be formulated not just differently, but with different modes of explanation. And if these new theories had that property and made sense, then they might be accommodatable in a modified version of constructive theory. But I don't think any of that is going to happen.

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