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Systems | The Beginning of Infinity 2 of 5 | David Deutsch

The Gospel of Crazy Eye Dog

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The Jump to Universality

A theory can have infinite reach, even if the person who originated it is unaware that it does. However, a person is an abstraction too, and there is a kind of infinite reach that is unique to people. The reach of the ability to understand explanations in this way is itself an instance of a wider phenomenon of universality - which I turn next.

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