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253 | David Deutsch on Science, Complexity, and Explanation

2023-10-16 · 102 min · episode 253 · 9 entities

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David Deutsch is one of the most creative scientific thinkers working today, who has as a goal to understand and explain the natural world as best we can. He was a pioneer in quantum computing, and has long been an advocate of the Everett interpretation of quantum theory. He is also the inventor of  constructor theory , a new way of conceptualizing physics and science more broadly. But he also has a strong interest in philosophy and epistemology, championing a Popperian explanation-based approach over a rival Bayesian epistemology. We talk about all of these things and more, including his recent work on  the Popper-Miller theorem , which specifies limitations on inductive approaches to knowledge and probability. Blog post with transcript: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2023/10/16/253-david-deutsch-on-science-complexity-and-explanation/ S upport Mindscape on  Patreon . David Deutsch received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of Oxford. He is currently a visiting professor in the Department of Atomic and Laser Physics at Oxford. He is a pioneer in quantum computation as well as initiating  constructor theory . His books include  The Fabric of Reality  and  The Beginning of Infinity . Among his awards including the Dirac Prize, the Dirac Medal, the Edge of Computation Science Prize, the Isaac Newton Medal, the Breakthrough Physics Prize, and a Royal Society Fellowship. Web site Oxford web page Google Scholar publications Amazon author page Wikipedia TED talk: After Billions of Years of Monotony, the Universe is Waking Up