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The Popperian Podcast #1 – David Deutsch – ‘Karl Popper and the Beginning of Infinity’

The Popperian Podcast

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How to Explain the World in a Humane Way?

R, i think the the our species is distinguished from other species by this capacity to know in the human sense, that is, to create explanations of the world. E and and er, i think this actually pre s our species, but all the other species that had this ability went extinct. E, er, neanderthas and and those species, we're the only survivors. And er, that's already a bit of a mystery. Because if you have this ability, then constantly trying to explain the world it it er, it was beneficial. We know that it evolved relatively fast, as these things go Er. And therefore it must have been beneficial to the to the genes,.

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