Systems | The Beginning of Infinity 2 of 5 | David Deutsch
The Gospel of Crazy Eye Dog
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The Second Type of Answer Is Because 641 Is Prime
The growth of knowledge does not consist of finding ways to justify one's beliefs. It consists of finding good explanations. The reach of ideas into the world of abstractions is a property of the knowledge that they contain, not of the brain in which they may happen to be instantiated. And the whole point here is that knowledge itself, in this case the theory of prime numbers and the fact that 641 is actually prime, that is an abstraction out there in the world. This emergent idea is itself an abstract replicator.
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