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Ep 77: David Deutsch's "The Fabric of Reality" Chapter 1 "The Theory of Everything" Part 3

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The Importance of Understanding the Fabric of Reality

idea that the laws of physics might emerge from some fundamental laws of biology reminds me of that scene in the Big Bang Theory with Sheldon who's the theoretical physicist. If you really want to understand where physics is coming from you've got to study the human brain therefore neuroscience is deeper than what physics is, he says. David writes as I shall show such deep and diverse connections have been discovered between the basic principles of these four apparently independent subjects it has become impossible to reach our best understanding of any one of them without also understanding the other three. The theory of evolution primarily the evolution of living organisms epistemology the theory of knowledge and the theory of computation about computers all taken together form a coherent explanatory

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