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Episode 54: Computational and Explanatory Universality (IQ part 2)

The Theory of Anything

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The Contradiction Between Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity

The reason why we know quantum mechanics is false is because it's at odds with general relativity. So, I'm going to go ahead and do a little bit of contradiction every, every physicist knows that David Deutsch admits that Stephen Hawking says it in his book. And this isn't how poppers epistemology work we're not skeptics, critical rationalists are not skeptics. We embrace the theory until a better theory comes along. It has true. That's what Deutsch is actually saying he's not making some ultimate claim I know for sure we will never find out.

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