In Chiara Marletto’s book, The Science of Can and Can’t, she discusses what she calls the “deterministic nightmare” where all your choices are predictable due…
Tag: knowledge creation
Donald Campbell made the bold prediction that all expansions of knowledge will be found to require the Universal Darwinism algorithm of variation and selection. In…
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…
In a past post, I criticized the view that determinism was predictable. Most deterministic algorithms have to be run to find out what the result…
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…