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Ep 87: David Deutsch‘s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 3 “Problem Solving” Part 1

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The Poverty of Explanationless Science

Theoryless science is the poverty of explanationless science. You can't do an experiment, a legitimate experiment, until such times you have an explanation. And the explanation is then going to be tested against reality. We interpret this information as evidence of a large and complex external universe or multiverse. But when we are weighing up this evidence, we are literally contemplating nothing more than patterns of weak electric current trickling through our own brains,. The whole world is theory-laden, it's all being interpreted by your mind," he says.

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