Systems | The Beginning of Infinity 1 of 5 | David Deutsch
The Gospel of Crazy Eye Dog
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Humans Are Factory for Creating New Explanatory Knowledge
Whether humans could live entirely outside the biosphere, say on the moon does not depend on the quirks of human biochemistry. We are factories for transforming anything into anything that the laws of nature allow. And we have that in common with all people, including aliens. An environment is within human reach if it is possible to create an open ended stream of explanatory knowledge there. That means that if knowledge of a suitable kind were instantiated in such an environment, in suitable physical objects, it would cause itself to survive and then continue to increase indefinitely.
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