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Listen "Ep 161: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 8 ”The Significance of Life”."
Episode Synopsis
This chapter is about just what you get in the title: the significance of life. Is it true we are just a chemical scum? Much of "The Beginning of Infinity" worldview is contained here, in an earlier form, in this chapter. In this, the first part, we primarily consider the question of what life itself is. We conclude that it is best thought of as a kind of resilient information. And that is knowledge.
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