Book · 1998 · Science
The Fabric of Reality
The Science of Parallel Universes--and Its Implications
#214 of 16,906 books, ranked by how many different people bring it up on podcasts
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David Deutsch, who's my current favorite scientific author, he talks about this in The Fabric of Reality that there's basically four great explanations that can be used to explain at a high level almost everything going on in the world.
Naval Ravikant · The Megyn Kelly Show · Sep 2024 Listen at 1:00:24 What they say about it
- References multiple books by author“The Beginning of Infinity and The Fabric of Reality”2
The best things said about it
The Fabric of Reality is another book I've spent a fair bit of time with.
Naval Ravikant All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg · Feb 2025 I think it's in The Fabric of Reality from David Deutsch, where basically, you know, the farmer is feeding the chicken every day and the chicken's getting fat and happy.
So in The Fabric of Reality you discuss the possibility that virtual reality generators could plug in directly into our nervous system and give us sense data that way.
Deutsche wrote a book in called the fabric of reality where he talked about how gold's incompleteness theorem actually verifies the importance of creativity.
The first came out about 10 years ago, The Fabric of Reality, and the more recent one is The Beginning of Infinity, an extremely smart guy and very nice guy.
Sam Harris The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2016 Back to one of my heroes in life, David Deutsch, his book, The Beginning of Infinity and The Fabric of Reality, shaped me quite a lot.
Where and when it comes up
13 people who brought it up
- Naval Ravikant3 mentions · 2 recs
Demis Hassabis1 mention · 1 rec- Jimmy Carr1 mention · 1 rec
- Marie Forleo1 mention · 1 rec
- Natalya Bailey1 mention · 1 rec
Neal Stephenson1 mention · 1 rec- Richard Craib1 mention · 1 rec
- Dwarkesh Patel2 mentions
- Gustav Söderström2 mentions
- Lee Cronin1 mention
- Sam Harris1 mention
- Sebastian Mallaby1 mention
Why people recommend it
The Fabric of Reality by David Deutsch is a seminal work of popular science and philosophy that synthesizes quantum physics, epistemology, computation, and evolution into four overarching explanatory frameworks. Naval Ravikant frequently championed Deutsch's philosophy, recommending the book alongside The Beginning of Infinity on The Tim Ferriss Show and on The Megyn Kelly Show, where he highlighted Deutsch as his favorite scientific author and noted that the book presents four great explanations capable of explaining almost everything in the world. Demis Hassabis also recommended the book on The Ezra Klein Show because it poses all of the big questions in physics. Other notable figures shared similar praise for Deutsch's ideas. Jimmy Carr mentioned on The Joe Rogan Experience that reading Deutsch's work blew his mind. Neal Stephenson discussed The Beginning of Infinity on the Lex Fridman Podcast, praising its exploration of the power of explanations and static civilizations. Richard Craib named the book as his potential favorite on the Lex Fridman Podcast, describing it as deeply optimistic. Natalya Bailey also credited Deutsch's book on the Lex Fridman Podcast as a mind-opening text that formally introduced her to complex physical and philosophical ideas. Finally, Naval Ravikant and Aaron Stupple discussed Deutsch's philosophy on The Tim Ferriss Show as foundational background for raising sovereign children.
Every mention
Naval Ravikant David Deutsch, who's my current favorite uh scientific author, um he talks about this in the fabric of real… 3
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“yes the fabric of reality is another book I've spent a fair bit of time with him done some podcasts with him”
Recommended
“David Deutsch, who's my current favorite uh scientific author, um he talks about this in the fabric of reality that there's basically four great explanations that can be used to explain at a high level almost everything going on in the world.”
Recommended
“So, I can't recommend them highly enough.”
Demis Hassabis I would say first of all fabric of Reality by David Deutsch 1
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“I would say first of all fabric of Reality by David Deutsch”
Jimmy Carr I read this book recently um David Deutsch the beginning of infinity and it's like it blew my mind 1
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“I read this book recently um David Deutsch the beginning of infinity and it's like it blew my mind”
Marie Forleo There's an amazing book called the beginning of infinity by a quantum theorist named david deutsch and he h… 1
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“There's an amazing book called the beginning of infinity by a quantum theorist named david deutsch and he has this incredible quote which says everything that is not forbidden by the laws of nature is achievable given the right knowledge”
Natalya Bailey um changing gears quite a bit um the beginning of infinity do you know what by david deutsch um so he's a p… 1
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“um changing gears quite a bit um the beginning of infinity do you know what by david deutsch um so he's a physicist um i think at cambridge or oxford and so i was introduced like more formally to a lot of the ideas like a lot of the things we've talked about he um has a lot more like”
Neal Stephenson and one of the reasons i like david deutsch in particular his book the beginning of infinity um is that he… 1
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“and one of the reasons i like david deutsch in particular his book the beginning of infinity um is that he talks about the power of explanations and the fact that um most civilizations are static that they've got a set of dogmas that they arrive at somehow and they just pass those on from one uh generation to the”
Richard Craib a book i like a lot is um maybe my favorite book is david deutsch's beginning of infinity um i just found t… 1
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“a book i like a lot is um maybe my favorite book is david deutsch's beginning of infinity um i just found that so optimistic”
Dwarkesh Patel So in the fabric of reality um you discuss the possibility that virtual reality generators could plug in di… 2
Discussed
“So in the fabric of reality um you discuss the possibility that virtual reality generators could plug in directly into our nervous system and give us sense data that way.”
Discussed
“deutsche wrote a book in called the fabric of reality where he talked about how gold's incompleteness theorem actually verifies the importance of creativity”
Gustav Söderström Back to one of my heroes in life, David Deutsch, his book, The Beginning of Infinity and the Fabric of Real… 2
Discussed
“Back to one of my heroes in life, David Deutsch, his book, The Beginning of Infinity and the Fabric of Reality, shaped me quite a lot.”
Discussed
“Yeah, so David Deutsch has been a hero of mine since I read The Beginning of Infinity, and then he wrote another book called The Fabric of Reality.”
Lee Cronin I think it's in the "Fabric of Reality" from David Deutsch, where basically, you know, the farmer is feedin… 1
Discussed
“I think it's in the "Fabric of Reality" from David Deutsch, where basically, you know, the farmer is feeding the chicken every day and the chicken's getting fat and happy.”
Sam Harris The first came out about 10 years ago, The Fabric of Reality, and the more recent one is the beginning of i… 1
Discussed
“The first came out about 10 years ago, The Fabric of Reality, and the more recent one is the beginning of infinity, an extremely smart guy and very nice guy.”
Sebastian Mallaby It was a book by David Deutsch called The Fabric of Reality. 1
Discussed
“It was a book by David Deutsch called The Fabric of Reality.”
Tim Ferriss The Beginning of Infinity and The Fabric of Reality. When you and I were chatting earlier today, you mentio… 1
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“The Beginning of Infinity and The Fabric of Reality. When you and I were chatting earlier today, you mentioned that you've largely read and reread these books over the last several years.”
Mentioned on the show without a named speaker1
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“all of this comes down from Deutsch's philosophy so beginning of infinity fabric of reality great books although they don't explicitly talk about children”
Other mentions (3: passing, ad reads, own books)
Plugged
“Another thing is I'm I'm writing uh the third book in my sort of sequel to my first two books u fabric of reality and the beginning of infinity.”
Passing
“Our topic today isn't the interesting books that you've written, The Fabric of Reality, The Beginning of Infinity.”
Passing
“He is the author of The Fabric of Reality and The Beginning of Infinity and he is an advocate of the philosophy of Karl Popper.”