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"The Case Against Reality" with Donald Hoffman (WiM193)

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The Power of a Scientific Theory

When darwin first wrote down his ideas, he was thinking in terms of physical animals fighting other physical animals orover resources and having physical kids inside of real space and time. So that's so the theory was founded in that intellectual it was the physicalist, realist, frankark. And then john maynard smith, in the 19 70 ays, well, we can get the algarithmic core, the mathematical core of it, and write that down. And that's where we got evolutionary game theory. It turns out now, if you look at what is sometimes called universal darwinism, for example, dan dennet talks about this quite a

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