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Ep 41: Deutsch Discoveries: Part 2 of an introduction to the philosophy of David Deutsch

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The Multiverse and Morality

David Deutsch is the first to have come up with an experimental test of Everrettian quantum theory, and a philosophical defense of the ways in which existing experiments are only explicable in terms of the multiverse. All evils are caused by insufficient knowledge; this really is a special case of problems are soluble. If we knew of the cure for cancer, we'd be rid of that evil. So two for viruses, bacterial infections, the slow degradation of our organs, especially our brains. The death of humans or indeed any life form does not appear in the laws of physics. There is no physical law preventing immortality. We simply need to repair the damage done at a rate faster than entropy er

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