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#214 – Jed Buchwald: Isaac Newton and the Philosophy of Science
Lex Fridman Podcast
Are We All Going to Die in an Apocalypse?
I'm not fundamentally a realist. I think our access to the inner workings of nature is inevitably mediated by what we can do with the materials and factors around us. We don't have theories that go beyond a certain point for all sorts of things. The notion of the deep theory to explain everything is a long-standing belief which goes back pretty far, although I think it only takes its fullest form sometime in towards the end of the 19th century.
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