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#10 - The Primacy of Ideas, with David Deutsch

Do Explain with Christofer Lövgren

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The Universality of Human Minds

i ended up in an argument with one of my teachers the other day. My classmate and i had held a presentation on ona. How do we know? It was an explanation of knowledge, why people should care about it. We were discussing this, and i brought up the universality of human minds. And even if you agree that computation is universal, how do we know that minds that are minds are universal? Ah, that is indeed a different argument. He wouldn't buy that. Ye? Well, explanatory universality is, well, i do cover this in the beginning of infinity as well, but i cover it separately from the issue of computation and computational universality. In short

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