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Ep: 99 David Deutsch‘s ”The Beginning of Infinity” - a retrospective in 99 minutes

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A Jumping Universality

The first kind of universality to have arisen that we know of seems to have been the d and a code. It is a code which cannot just make some limited number of organisms, brather can explore the space of all possible carbon based life. The modern indian arabic system of zero to nine is universal. Words might get longer or shorter, but it's not like we're going to run out of letters or words. Human beings have created forms of universality as well. Take ways of communicating: pictograms were used, pictures representing words. But our present various systems of alphabets, for example, the english alphabet, is universal. In principle, the universal

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