David Deutsch on the infinite reach of knowledge
The TED Interview
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What Is Human Type Creativity?
Human creativity can form models of the world that say not only what will happen, but why. The eye is like a camera, because it gradually moved towards that shape because the animals that had a worse shape didn't survive as well. But a camera is shaped by the laws of optics, o caso. That is what allows human type knowledge to have this universal reach. Whereas biological knowledge,. although it has eno s reach, can make elephants trunksd and giraffes necks and so on... whereas humans, as the philosopher cal papa said, we can let our ideas die in our place.
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