Podcasts that mention 📚 The Fabric of Reality by David Deutsch

I think it’s referenced in David Deutsch’s "The Fabric of Reality," where essentially, you know, the farmer feeds the chicken daily, and the chicken grows fat and happy.

In this segment, Lee Cronin references David Deutsch's book 'The Fabric of Reality,' discussing a concept related to a farmer and his chicken, which grows fat and happy due to daily feeding.

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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 next

Neal Stephenson mentions 'The Beginning of Infinity' by David Deutsch as a book he likes for its ideas about explanations.

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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

Richard Craib mentions this as possibly his favorite book and describes it as optimistic.

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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 formalism and physics rigor around and so i got introduced to you know more like jargon of how to think about some of these ideas um you know like memes and you know dna as as ultimate meme um the concept of infinity and um objective beauty um but he has a really strong grounding in in physics um and then there's a rigorous way of talking about these like big yeah so that was very mind opening to me to read that but it also i think is probably part of why i ended up marrying my husband is related to that book and then i've had some other really great connections with people because i had read it and so had they

Natalya mentions this book by David Deutsch as mind-opening, introducing her to formal ideas related to physics and philosophy, and even connecting her to her husband.

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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

Marie Forleo mentions this book and quotes the author to support her point about things being achievable.

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so always our final question then what are three books you would recommend to the audience well I've chosen uh three books that are quite uh meaningful to me so I would say first of all fabric of Reality by David Deutsch

The guest recommends this book as one of three meaningful books, noting it poses big questions in physics.

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I read this book recently um David Deutsch the beginning of infinity and it's like it blew my mind

Jimmy Carr mentions reading David Deutsch's book 'The Beginning of Infinity' and how it impacted him.

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