Michael Levin: belief

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…This is the chicken or, or the egg question. You’re saying Newton’s laws are creating the physical world? That is a very deep follow-on question that we will come back to in a minute. All I was saying about Newton is that you don’t need quantum anything. You don’t need to think about consciousness. You already, long before you get to any of that, as Pythagoras, I think, knew, already we have the idea that this physical world is being strongly impacted by truths that do not live in the physical world. And when I say… Wait. Which truths are we referring to? Are we talking about Newton’s laws, like mathematical equations, or……

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