Fallible Animals Episode 3: Progress as Error-Correction
Fallible Animals
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The History of Knowledge on Earth
After Johannes Kepler's discovery of his famous three laws of planetary motion, there were meant to be improvements on Nicholas Copernicus's heliocentric model. It was during this time that many of the foundational ideas of our civilization were codified. Knowledge is basically a special kind of information that, once instantiated in the world, tends to cause itself to remain so. This definition emerges naturally in our deepest theory in physics, which is called Constructor Theory.
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