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The limitless potential of human knowledge | David Deutsch

The TED Interview

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What Is Understanding?

Some of our ancestor species developed this ability to copy mes meams. Anything that can be copied from brain to brain is a mem. This took off as a sort of biological ability in our ancestors. And then at some point it shifted to a whole gear where, where it wasn't direct copy of behaviour, the meaning of what was underlay some of these activities started tog copied. That's the moment when i guess you would say that understanding comes into the equation. There, someone is understanding someone else's intent or action, yes, and doing something based on their understanding. So understanding transcends the a application of what it's for. It explains what might happen in terms of general

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