Do Explain with Christofer Lövgren A Beginning of Infinity, with Charlie Jungheim
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Oct 4, 2019 AI Snips
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Humans As Universal Explainers
- Humans are "universal explainers": evolution produced a creativity program that crafts explanations applicable across domains.
- Because the world is explicable, our capacity to create explanations ties human creativity to deep physical reality.
Hard-To-Vary As The Mark Of Good Explanations
- A good explanation is 'hard to vary': changing its details would destroy its explanatory power.
- Bad explanations are easy to vary and thus fail to constrain alternatives or convey real understanding.
Why Justificationism Fails
- Justificationism (foundationalism/empiricism) tries to build knowledge from secure grounds but leads to infinite regress.
- Deutsch/Popper reject knowledge-from-authority and instead view knowledge as conjectures subject to criticism and improvement.