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David Deutsch on the infinite reach of knowledge

The TED Interview

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Do You Know What Meams Are?

Some of our ancestor species develope this ability to copy meams. This took off as a sort of biological ability in our ancestors, and then at some point it shifted to a whole gear where the meaning of what was underlay some activities started to g copied. And that's moment when i guess you would say that understanding comes into the equation there. Someone is understanding some one else's intent or action, yes, and doing something based on that understanding. Under ding transcends the initial application of what it's for. It explains what might happen in terms of general ideas about what can happen. So initially, creativity was used only for copying ideas faithfully - almost the opposite use of what we

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