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David Deutsch on the infinite reach of knowledge

The TED Interview

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Is There Evidence of Engineering in the Galaxy?

We don't see any evidence of the galaxy having been engineered, he says. The main game in town out there is still the same old physical processes that filled the prior 13 billion boring years. But i think we should take for granted that if an intelligent species exist, it will colonize the galaxy very quickly - but they may not want to go far from each other because of communication difficulty.

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