Fallible Animals Episode 3: Progress as Error-Correction
Fallible Animals
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The Importance of Constructor Theory in Physics
In explaining some aspect of reality, we conjecture a theory or an explanation. Even if successful, that explanation will inevitably have gaps, errors, and shortcomings. These gaps in turn require a new explanation that accounts for everything its predecessor could account for. This new, deeper theory has fewer errors than its predecessor, but errors remain. And so our theories grow ever deeper, accounting for more and more phenomena with every improvement in our worldview.
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