David Deutsch's 2011 philosophical argument — that the beginning of Infinity is the discovery of good explanations (hard to vary, testable), that all human progress comes from this discovery, and that there are no fundamental limits to what can be understood or achieved.
Creates the epistemological optimism framework grounded in physics — The Beginning of Infinity argues that the pattern of good explanation (hard-to-vary, experimentally testable theories) is the generative mechanism of all human progress, and that the only limit to knowledge is our failure to seek good explanations.
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