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#214 – Jed Buchwald: Isaac Newton and the Philosophy of Science

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Is There Anything Outside of the Reach of Science?

I'm a materialist in the deepest sense of the term. I don't think there is anything out there except material structures which interact in various ways. Do I think, for example, that this bottle of water is conscious? No, I do not. Although, how would I know? I can't talk to it. So what do it's a hypothesis? Yeah, it's an opinion, an educated opinion that may be very wrong.

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