
Ep 161: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 8 ”The Significance of Life”.
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The Beginning of Infinity Style Claim About Genes
The organism is a virtual reality rendering specified by its genes. It's embodying a theory about the environment so that the genes can get replicated. Genes become extinct if they do not enact that intention as efficiently or resolutely as other competing genes. So living processes and virtual reality renderings are superficial differences aside, the same sort of process. Both involve the physical embodying of general theories about an environment. And we're about to come to a very beginning of infinity style claim about all of this.
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