
Ep 163: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 8 ”The Significance of Life” Part 2
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The Future History of the Universe Depends on the Future of Knowledge
David Wheeler: We could simply be the first intelligent civilization in our universe or not we don't know. Our observations are consistent with well just about every theory that you can think of right now including the one that they have actually colonized the almost the entire galaxy but are hiding, he says. He goes on to say quote the cosmologists John Barrow and Frank Tippler have considered the astrophysical effects that life would have if it survived for long after the time at which the Sun would otherwise become a red giant. The future history of the universe depends on the future history of knowledge astrologers used to believe that cosmic events influence human affairs science believe for centuries that neither influence is
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