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Constructor Theory of Information with David Deutsch

Fallible Animals

CHAPTER

The Importance of Establishing Concepts Like Measurement and Distinguishing Between Outcomes of an Experiment

It is possible Constructive Theory, as we conceive of it, isn't true. And that somebody invents a theory of physics which violates the principles of Constructive Theory. But I don't think that's going to happen. I think that future theories are going to conform to Constructive Theory - but only if they can be testable in some sense beyond our present concepts.

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