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Special Edition: Theory of Anything Hosts David Deutsch

The Theory of Anything

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The Theory of Self-Replicating Ideas

Dennis O'Brien: I privately and personally think that it is poppers theory. Most of the criticism of this, near Darwinian theory of the mind, if you want to call it that, but I've heard so far, is along those lines that we don't need replicator base. But Dennis says he thinks one would lose a lot of explanatory power by removing replicators. The problem reminds me a little bit of the fossil thing, which I believe you've brought up before in defense of the multiverse. So, like people might claim that we don’t need dinosaurs, we could simply come up with other ways fossils may have come about that don't involve the

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