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

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A Universal Scheme for Problem Solving, Part Two

Life, whether it's our human lives personally or life broadly speaking as broadly as you can conceive it, is about problem solving. And in part one of my discussion of this chapter, we eventually got to a universal scheme for the solving of problems. What separates science in this scheme is the existence of crucial experimental testing. The very construction of scientific conjectures is focused on finding explanations that have experimentally testable predictions. We are always seeking tests whose outcomes will falsify one or more of the contending theories.

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