In The Beginning of Infinity, David Deutsch claimed that no existing evolutionary algorithm has yet created knowledge. But Karl Popper and Donald Campbell beg to…
Tag: David Deutsch
In past posts, I’ve been building my argument around why Word Essentialism is always a rational mistake under Popperian epistemology. Popper himself explained this. I…
The following letter was originally sent out to my mailing list and published here.
Computational Theory is possibly the most underrated of all scientific theories. In fact, most scientists think of it as a branch of mathematics rather than…
In the past I wrote about how one of my most important disagreements with David Deutsch is on the subject of what counts as knowledge…
In the 4S email group, there has been a lot of discussion about Donald Campbell’s two essays “Evolutionary Epistemology” and “Blind Variation and Selective Retention…
A long time ago I wrote an article called “Disagreements with Deutsch: The Afterlife.” It was a terrible article and, in my opinion, contains a…
Karl Popper had an interesting relationship with “defining terms.” On the one hand, he felt quite strongly that it was wrong to do so: I…
“Quantum fluctuation messes with the Planck scale, which then triggers the Deutsch Proposition. Can we agree on that?” asks Tony Stark. What the heck is…
The following is an extended quote from Roger Penrose from Shadows of the Mind, p. 382-383: Though it indeed seems reasonable to rule out space-time…