Episode 59: The Principle of Optimism (Round Table Discussion)
The Theory of Anything
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The Insoluble Problem of Knowledge
"We don't live on islands of cheese, right? The thought experiment there, I don't think disproves the principle," he says. "There is some sense in which, you know, if you had the right knowledge, it would be soluble." Deutsch's formulation implicitly assumes that the binding constraint is knowledge and not resources to solve any particular instance, Bruce argues.
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