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ToA Episode 44: Clarifying David Deutsch’s Views of “Knowledge”
Critical Rationalism

ToA Episode 44: Clarifying David Deutsch’s Views of “Knowledge”

Posted on June 3, 2022June 3, 2022 by Bruce Nielson

In this episode, Bruce had a chance to talk to David Deutsch and ask him questions about his views of knowledge to clarify if he…

Theory of Anything Podcast 34: Alpha Go and Creativity
Computation

Theory of Anything Podcast 34: Alpha Go and Creativity

Posted on November 2, 2021November 1, 2021 by Bruce Nielson

In this episode, we review Alpha Go: The Movie. This is an amazing documentary worth watching before we spoil it for you in this review.…

Is it Possible to Escape the Deterministic Nightmare?
Artifical General Intelligence

Is it Possible to Escape the Deterministic Nightmare?

Posted on July 20, 2021September 5, 2021 by Bruce Nielson

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…

Theory of Anything 26: Is Universal Darwinism the Sole Source of Knowledge?
Artificial Intelligence

Theory of Anything 26: Is Universal Darwinism the Sole Source of Knowledge?

Posted on July 13, 2021August 1, 2021 by Bruce Nielson

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…

Theory of Anything 25: Does Artificial Intelligence Create Knowledge?
Artificial Intelligence

Theory of Anything 25: Does Artificial Intelligence Create Knowledge?

Posted on June 29, 2021August 1, 2021 by Bruce Nielson

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 What Sense is Knowledge Creation Unpredictable?
Artifical General Intelligence

In What Sense is Knowledge Creation Unpredictable?

Posted on June 22, 2021June 21, 2021 by Bruce Nielson

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…

Campbell vs Deutsch: Ubiquitous Knowledge-Creation
Artificial Intelligence

Campbell vs Deutsch: Ubiquitous Knowledge-Creation

Posted on October 29, 2020May 8, 2021 by Bruce Nielson

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…

Campbell’s Evolutionary Epistemology
Artificial Intelligence

Campbell’s Evolutionary Epistemology

Posted on October 22, 2020February 2, 2022 by Bruce Nielson

For an analysis of possible differences between Campbell’s theory and Deutsch’s see this post. In the 4S email group, there has been a lot of…


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