David Deutsch: disagreement

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…What about the alternative view that it’s a big, sprawling mess; we’re not capable of understanding an integrated theory; there’s maybe some Darwinian principle operating across some different kind of multiverse? Our universe persists just because it works well enough, a bit like a bad used car; we’re never going to grasp it. There’s not a unified theory, and here we are. OK, well, that’s a mixture of the anthropic principle, which I disagree with, and the idea that some features of reality are inherently incomprehensible, which I also disagree with. I can’t think of a connection between the two. Well, if you want me to go into this, I can go into either of them, but — Take the incomprehensibility of the universe (and possibly multiverse). We would both agree it’s incomprehensible to your cat, right? Or to the local raccoon……

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