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Comprehending the Counter-Intuitive
- People understand relativity and quantum theory, despite their counter-intuitiveness.
- This suggests we can comprehend deeper, potentially counter-intuitive theories, too.
The Universe's Comprehensibility
- The universe's comprehensibility implies our ability to comprehend it.
- David Deutsch's work on computation suggests physical laws are computable, thus understandable.
Explicable vs. Inexplicable Universe
- Dawkins prefers an explicable universe, rejecting supernatural explanations.
- However, an inexplicable world resembles one with arbitrary magic.