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Who is David Deutsch?
Born in Haifa, Israel, David Deutsch was educated at Cambridge and Oxford universities. His work has revealed the importance of quantum effects in the physics of time travel, and he is an authority on the theory of parallel universes. He is a member of the Quantum Computation and Cryptography Research Group at the Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford University. Dedicated to the memory of Karl Popper, Hugh Everett and Alan Turing, and to Richard Dawkins. This book takes their ideas seriously.
“Life achieves its effects not by being larger, more massive or more energetic than other physical processes, but by being more knowledgeable.”
Deutsch’s Four Main Theory Strands:
Four main strands: (i) quantum theory, (ii) evolution, (iii) epistemology (knowledge), (iv) computation. (ii) to (iv) are emergent phenomena to (i).
“I have been advocating a particular unified world-view based on the four strands: the quantum physics of the multiverse, Popperian epistemology, the Darwin-Dawkins theory of evolution and a strengthened version of Turing’s theory of universal computation.”
Deutsch’s Main Ideas in Fabric of Reality:
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