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53: The Case Against Reality | Don Hoffman (classic + updated)

The After On Podcast

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The Social Network of Conscious Agents

I think the right scientific attitude toward any scientific theory is not one of belief. It's a matter of understanding. Good scientists try to take theories and push them to their limits, and when they break, we are quite happy because we're about to learn something new. I'm trying to be precise and bold so that others can show me where I'm wrong. That's how science works. As we make bold and mathematically precise proposals, look at the implications, see where they go wrong, and then see how we have to change the mathematics. And that's when we start to make real progress.

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