
Ep 203: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 10 ”The Nature of Mathematics” Part 4
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Shifting from Seeking Ultimate Truth to Creating Conjectural Explanatory Knowledge
In this chapter, the hosts discuss the shift in perspective towards creating explanatory knowledge rather than seeking ultimate truth. They explore skepticism towards consciousness playing a fundamental role in interference experiments and the connection between Girdle's result and consciousness. They also delve into the nature of mathematics and its relationship to the physical world, questioning the denial of the universality of computation to support mathematical theorems.
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