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Ep 91: David Deutsch‘s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 3 “Problem Solving” Part 2

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Evolution and Evolution by Natural Selection

David Wright's theory that knowledge can grow only by conjecture and refutation is an important unifying insight. In biology, variations or mutations are random, blind, purposeless while in human problem solving, the creation of new conjectures is itself a complex process. All conjectures have to be tested experimentally, which is one reason why biological evolution is slower and less efficient than scientific discovery.

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