Ep 100: David Deutsch
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Are We a Chemical Scum on Earth?
Stephen hawking said that we are just a chemical scum on the surface of a typical planet, orbiting a typical star. But you say, this place is not typical, is it? In what sense isn't it typical? It's we are certainly made of chemicals, but so is the rest of the earth and all other matter in the universe. So to single us out as a scum in in these erif you are going to take these terms in the context of trying to describe something purely in terms... then it is simply false to add a prejoritive term. That prejoritives term comes from a different problem situation, and a different vocabulary is needed.
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