David Deutsch
David Deutsch
David Elieser Deutsch, FRS, is an Israeli-born British physicist at the University of Oxford. He is a non-stipendiary Visiting Professor in the Department of Atomic and Laser Physics at the Centre for Quantum Computationin the Clarendon Laboratory of the University of Oxford. He pioneered the field of quantum computation by formulating a description for a quantum Turing machine, as well as specifying an algorithm designed to run on a quantum computer. He is a proponent of the many-worlds interpretation of...
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Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense.
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Feeling insignificant because the universe is large has exactly the same logic as feeling inadequate for not being a cow.
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Every potential angle is being looked at the same way as the previous crimes, ... We do have investigative leads.
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The theory of computation has traditionally been studied almost entirely in the abstract, as a topic in pure mathematics. This is to miss the point of it. Computers are physical objects, and computations are physical processes. What computers can or cannot compute is determined by the laws of physics alone, and not by pure mathematics.
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As I understand it, the claim is that the less you use Homeopathy, the better it works. Sounds plausible to me.
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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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Necessary truth is merely the subject-matter of mathematics, not the reward we get for doing mathematics. The object of mathematics is not, and cannot be, mathematical certainty. It is not even mathematical truth, certain or otherwise. It is, and must be, mathematical explanation.