Beginning of Infinity Explanations That Transform the World

Name: Beginning of Infinity Explanations That Transform the World
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ISBN: 9780670022755

ISBN-10: 0670022756

ISBN-13: 9780670022755

Edition: 2011

Authors: David Deutsch

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A bold and all-embracing exploration of the nature and progress of knowledge from one of today's great thinkers. Throughout history, mankind has struggled to understand life's mysteries, from the mundane to the seemingly miraculous. In this important new book, David Deutsch, an award-winning pioneer in the field of quantum computation, argues that explanationshave a fundamental place in the universe. They have unlimited scope and power to cause change, and the quest to improve them is the basic regulating principle not only of science but of all successful human endeavor. This stream of ever improving explanations has infinite reach, according to Deutsch: we are subject only to the laws of…

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 7/21/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 496
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 1.584



Acknowledgements


Introduction



The Reach of Explanations



Closer to Reality



The Spark



Creation



The Reality of Abstractions



The Jump to Universality



Artificial Creativity



A Window on Infinity



Optimism



A Dream of Socrates



The Multiverse



A Physicist's History of Bad Philosophy



Choices



Why are Flowers Beautiful?



The Evolution of Culture



The Evolution of Creativity



Unsustainable



The Beginning


Bibliography


Index