
Ep 181: The Big Bang Livestream ToKCast
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Is It Good Epistemology?
William was asked, but where would you categorize the story of Newton sitting under a tree? Is it perception or a story? Okay, so that is certainly a story and many think that it wasn't true. In fact, that's not how he came up with gravity. We know that he was working on specific problems to do with celestial dynamics. He wasn't just looking at apples falling from apple trees. So that's just a story as possibly apocryphal, in other words, false. But I might not mention the AI thing because there's something else that person has asked. A fellow called Arthur has said, quote, for the longest time I found it weird. Yud
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