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Ep: 99 David Deutsch‘s ”The Beginning of Infinity” - a retrospective in 99 minutes
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Why Is There a Copper Atom at the Top of the Nose of Winston Churchill?
Sometimes, the emergent explanation is the only known proper explanation. Our go to example here is the parable of the copper atom. In parliament square in london there stands a statue of winston churchill. It's made of bronze, and at the tip of the nose of the statue is a copper atom. The deterministic Explanation goes like this: matter was produced at the big bang,. Some of that matter eventually coalesced into stars. At the core of those stars, eventually copper was fused during a super nover explosion. And under the action of the laws of physics, the copper atom eventually ended up at the point where it is today. Now that explanation works for anything
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