The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level of the predictive hierarchy, but the ones that contain the deepest explanations. -David Deutsch

 

The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level of the predictive hierarchy, but the ones that contain the deepest explanations.


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The next chapter is likely to provoke many mathematicians. This can't be helped. Mathematics is not what they think it is.

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The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests.

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Surely it is more interesting to argue about what the truth is, than about what some particular thinker, however great, did or did not think.

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Time travel may be achieved one day, or it may not. But if it is, it should not require any fundamental change in world-view, at least for those who broadly share the world view I am presenting in this book.

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The quantum theory of parallel universes is not the problem, it is the solution. It is not some troublesome, optional interpretation emerging from arcane theoretical considerations. It is the explanation, the only one that is tenable, of a remarkable and counter-intuitive reality.

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