
#521 - Sabine Hossenfelder - Life's Mysteries, Explained By Physics
Modern Wisdom
Knowledge is Unpredictable
- Knowledge creation requires an intuitive leap and cannot be strictly deduced from existing knowledge.
- Physicists, and other scientists, often create narratives in hindsight to explain their discoveries, but these narratives often obscure the element of 'magic' or insight involved.
- David Deutsch argues that if knowledge were predictable from what we already know, it wouldn't be new knowledge.
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