Deutsch Explains
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A Compendium of @DavidDeutschOxf's Explanations.
Joined July 2023
"Good ideas come from mutating and shuffling older, false ideas that seem to be problematic." @DavidDeutschOxf
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if there is ever a post of mine that you should take seriously and act on, it is this one go get this book I obviously gain nothing from this; it is a pure recommendation of what I found to be the best book I've read there is 0 chance you don't end up smarter after
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"We perceive nothing as what it really is. Our connection to reality is never just perception. It's always, as Karl Popper put it, theory-laden." @DavidDeutschOxf
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"Whenever creativity touches on something it changes it profoundly and it really becomes the most important thing to try to understand in regard to that field." @DavidDeutschOxf
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"People are significant in the cosmic scheme of things." @DavidDeutschOxf
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"Because we are universal explainers, we are not simply obeying our genes." @DavidDeutschOxf
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"[Science is] mostly failure, but it can be all fun." @DavidDeutschOxf
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"We acquire ever more knowledge of reality by solving problems and finding better explanations." @DavidDeutschOxf, The Fabric of Reality. —Chapter 3: Problem-solving.
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"The simple epistemological error leads to unlimited suffering. And it’s a common error, so I think if I had to pick something that most people don’t get about epistemology, it’s that the growth of knowledge begins with problems." @DavidDeutschOxf
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"We should examine and criticize laws, customs and other institutions with an eye to whether they set up conditions for anti-rational memes to evolve." @DavidDeutschOxf, The Beginning of Infinity. ––Chapter 15: The Evolution of Culture.
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"A pessimistic civilization considers it immoral to behave in ways that have not been tried many times before, because it is blind to the possibility that the benefits of doing so might offset the risks. So it is intolerant and conformist." @DavidDeutschOxf
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"The rational attitude to the future is what I call optimism, the principle of optimism, namely that all evils are caused by lack of knowledge. That isn't a prophecy of success. It's an explanation for failure." @DavidDeutschOxf
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"When all is said and done, problems and explanations are located within the human mind, which owes its reasoning power to a fallible brain, and its supply of information to fallible senses." @DavidDeutschOxf, The Fabric of Reality. —Chapter 3: Problem-solving.
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"Explanatory knowledge is the defining adaptation of our species." @DavidDeutschOxf
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"Suffering is necessarily a certain kind of conflict between ideas." @DavidDeutschOxf
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"Problems are inevitable – there are always unsolved problems. But they get solved. Science continues to make progress even, or especially, after making great discoveries, because the discoveries themselves reveal further problems. Therefore the existence of an unsolved problem
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"Regarding the explanatory function of theories as paramount is not just an idle preference. The predictive function of science is entirely dependent on it. Also, in order to make progress in any field, it is the explanations in existing theories, not the predictions, that have
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"Beware the difference between prediction and prophecy. Prophecy purports to know things which cannot be known." @DavidDeutschOxf
@TimothyDuignan Confusing prophecy with prediction is a widespread, fundamental epistemological error.
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"Explaining the difference between a static society and a dynamic one in terms of anything other than the ideas in people’s heads is not only factually mistaken but morally wrong." @DavidDeutschOxf
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@TimothyDuignan Confusing prophecy with prediction is a widespread, fundamental epistemological error.
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