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Fabric-of-Reality · The Fabric of Reality List: The work of David Deutsch

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The purpose of this list is to consider the nature of the fabric of reality. How much can our deepest theories of the world -- including quantum physics and the theories of evolution, computation and knowledge -- explain? Do they point the way to "a unified theory of everything", as David Deutsch argues in his book? Is quantum theory literally true, as the many worlds view (and most thinking in the field of quantum cosmology and of quantum computation) assumes? Is the human race "...just a chemical scum on a moderate-sized planet, orbiting round a very average star in the outer suburb of one among a hundred billion galaxies", as Stephen Hawking asserts? What are the implications of quantum theory for the understanding of the significance of knowledge? Is certainty possible in mathematics? Where does free will fit in the picture painted by quantum theory? What is the scope of virtual reality? What are the implications of the nature of the fabric of reality for everyday life?

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Well, this bickering is getting more and more irrelevant, but I don't like letting anyone else get the last word, any more than anyone else does, so here goes.
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Richard Dawkins and the politicalization of science
Recently Richard Dawkins has been on Television and I have been extremely concerned and disappointed in him. I n fact I would like the scientific community to
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David Deutsch at TED 2009
http://www.ted.com/talks/david_deutsch_a_new_way_to_explain_explanation.html
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TOEs was: Church Thesis etc
Charles writes: ->>> F = ma is precise, ->> ->> Yes, as a mathematical formula, it is very precise. But as applied in ->> physics, it is hedged around with
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Solipsism
Bertrand Russell told a story about a logician colleague who had written to him explaining that she was a solipsist, and expressing surprise that there weren't
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