
Ep 163: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 8 ”The Significance of Life” Part 2
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Are We Going Astray in Underestimating the Physical Impact of Life?
The ancient consensus happened to avoid our mistake by being even more parochial in the universe as we see it life has affected nothing of any astrophysical significance. We are seeing spatially close regions to us as they were in the past as well so of course we're not seeing what the future is going to be like in the future might very well be radically different to what the present and the past is. There have been a radical transformation here on earth new york city looks nothing like it did a century ago. The solar system will be transformed and eventually the galaxy will be transformed but there's no point looking around at what has already gone or come to pass because we're looking into the
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