Ep 184: ToKCast Digest - An Overview of Optimism
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The Reality of Abstractions
David Deutsches work is about universality. He lays out the case of how not everything can be explained in terms of physical forces and particles. That there are things we call abstractions that have real physical effects in the world, but are themselves not physical. And again, if that's blowing your mind or if that makes you think, ah, spirituality, ah, mysticism, ah, the supernatural, no, it has nothing to do with any of those things.
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