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Ep: 99 David Deutsch‘s ”The Beginning of Infinity” - a retrospective in 99 minutes

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Observation Is Theory Loading

Memedics is the study of how humans create knowledge by copying other people's behaviour. David says that to replicate a mem we have to come at it with a theory first. Apes and parrots can apeen parrot, but they cannot construct knowledge like humans do. But their repertoire of possible behaviors is unbounded.

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