David Deutsch - The Beginning of Infinity, Explanations That Transform the World | EP 145
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- Опубликовано: 10 июл 2024
- The Beginning of Infinity, Explanations That Transform the World, David Deutsch
1:25 start
13:41 there is no such thing as direct experience; there's only ever interpreted experience
22:21 businesses are visions; money is just the means to the vision .. not the ends
30:13 shoes as technology; documentary Pants for All; we invent technology to offload perspiration
36:00 "spaceship earth" theory
45:30 paradox of Wigner’s friend
A bold and all-embracing exploration of the nature and progress of knowledge from one of today's great thinkers.
Throughout history, mankind has struggled to understand life's mysteries, from the mundane to the seemingly miraculous.
Our guest is a multiple award-winning pioneer in the field of quantum computation and argues that explanations have a fundamental place in the universe. They have unlimited scope and power to cause change, and the quest to improve them is the basic regulating principle not only of science but of all successful human endeavour.
This stream of ever improving explanations has infinite reach. We are subject only to the laws of physics, and they impose no upper boundary to what we can eventually understand, control, and achieve.
He applies that worldview to a wide range of issues and unsolved problems, from creativity and free will to the origin and future of the human species.
We welcome David Deutsch, Fellow of the Royal Society, a pioneer in quantum computing, visiting Professor of physics at the Centre for Quantum Computation at Oxford University, multiple TED Talker, optimist and author of The Beginning of Infinity, Explanations That Transform the World.
We discuss:
What David calls good explanations.
Error as unavoidable in the growth of knowledge.
Fallibilism
Education
Creativity
Artificial Intelligence
The misconception that knowledge needs authority to be genuine or reliable
All scientific theories are testable conjectures
Every explanation begins with conjecture
The growth of knowledge consists of correcting misconceptions in our theories
The Principle of Mediocrity
The Spaceship Earth metaphor
We touch very lightly on the Multiverse
More about David here:
www.daviddeutsch.org.uk/
constructortheory.org/ 
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Still one of my favourite interviews with David.
Thank you Aaron
5:06 "All rational thought is critical. It consists of conjecture and criticism. It does not consist of building up things. If knowledge consisted of building up from a secure foundation, then if there was anything wrong with the foundation, the rest of the structure might fall down at any moment. That's not how we should look at knowledge."
the book The Beginning of Infinity should be a standard school reader ...
David would ironically be very against this idea 😂
possibly, but only if it was compulsory 🙃
@@stegemme yup, crazy that we just talked across the span of 4 years lol. I may have to come back to this 4 years from now haha
4:40 your starting point doesn’t matter fundamentally
7:00 there is no authoritative source fundamentally. Good and bad conjectures can come from anywhere
8:50 problem solving and criticism is essential to learning a concept
10:00, 11:40 all fields at their core involve the quest to find good explanations. ‘How can I best find and fix errors?’ that’s the right mindset
12:00 trying to create an error free system never does so. And will do even worse by entrenching errors
12:05 you shouldn’t coerce children, help them identify and correct errors. Recover from errors to. Help in their problem solving journey, don’t do it for them
36:00 the decoupling of humans from other animals
44:00 explaining the seen with the unseen, and Hugh Everett
47:50 every human being also has infinite reach, like a spark waiting to happen if they choose to
41:04 “And if we can’t expect endless improvement, then the priority is not error correction … it’s the orderly management of stasis … stasis really means death by another name”
Wow. Thanks so much for the upload. Pure gold on RUclips.
A pleasure Nadeem
👏👏👏 Genius work!! thank you David Deutsch and Innovation show!!
It’s all Deutsch
This book is really amazing an excellent opportunity for success in understanding in nature new generation which we learned in our future
Thank you for this! David is as usually completely fantastic, clear, concise and as deep as it gets. Well conducted interview.
Thank you Vladimir
@@TheInnovationShowbut seriously, thank you. This was one of my favourite interviews with him, with so many soundbites for slow chewing
thank you so much for your amazing interviews and how great your contents are ...keep it up
Thank you for letting me know Kay, I am glad you are finding value in it.
Thank you for uploading. 🌟💛
Thanks for listening
10:37 “Does it make it easier to remove bad policies and bad rulers? That’s the only criterion that one should judge a political institution by”
Pure gold!❤️
Thank you Chuck
Thank you for this interview
A real pleasure
More sensitive attributes to our knowledge
I just want to be able to explain - to myself - the things that I know, in a way that I can comprehend.
Infinity has no beginning.
I have ordered the book but I can't wait to get it. What should I do??!!
Wait for the movie.
1:25 start
13:41 there is no such thing as direct experience; there's only ever interpreted experience
22:21 businesses are visions; money is just the means to the vision .. not the ends
30:13 shoes as technology; documentary Pants for All; we invent technology to offload perspiration
36:00 "spaceship earth" theory
45:30 paradox of Wigner’s friend
Thanks Peter, added to description
stay hungry, stay foolish, stay..subscribed
Sunship earth
Why hasn’t Lex Fridman interviewed him????
He never asked me Elbert, but maybe he should interview David? 😃
his explanation that conspiracy theory is an example of a bad explanation is a bad explanation of what conspiracy theory is and hence a bad example of what a bad example is
A commercial every 5 mins is a sure way not to get a like/subscribe. It completely ruins the flow of the conversation. Don't be greedy. 1 commercial at the beginning if you must.
Thanks Amir I’ll mention it to the team, trust us, we are not making much money from the commercials so that is not the goal
Thank you for letting me know, I wouldn’t have known otherwise, I turned off all ads except a skippable pre roll.