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Theoretical physicist David Deutsch delivers a mind-bending meditation on the "great monotony" — the idea that nothing novel has appeared in the universe for billions of years — and shows how humanity's capacity to create explanatory knowledge could be the thing that bucks this trend. "Humans are not playthings of cosmic forces," he says. "We are users of cosmic forces."
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5:48 Jednou to bude všem jasné.
I’m going to admit I have never heard of David Deutsch before but I like him already. I’ve got some reading to do, something tells me it won’t be ‘light’.
@Evan Fields He graded me with all A when I submitted my test papers with blank .. with a note saying I knew nothing..
@Thomast Tham
Ya, haha
I recommend The Beginning of Infinity.
He wrote a “non-light” paper about quantum computers, which I found good, althiugh I felt I lacked some knowledge of some things in it…
I read his book: http://beginningofinfinity.com/ it was quite interesting, easy to read, but deep.
Way to break the monotony of a person speaking by replacing it with a tablet and a broom stick…
tranny on an ipad
You have nicer broom sticks than we do here in the US.
On wheels
Attempt at creatively sidestepping public speaking. Cant blame him.
Well this is a novel talk. I liked the idea.I would have liked if they just put a bipedal robot with an iPad and his face in it, like atlas or something, walking the stage ominously.
After waking up from my coma, I was worried that I may have missed years of my life
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To my relief, I logged onto YouTube and discovered that it is still 2005.
Graham Jonathan, are you saying this is from 2005?
@brenda McLaughlin I love how people mistake irony for sarcasm
Isnt that sarcastic
@Graham Jonathan better is 6969696969696969…
*rimshot*
E=mseeeee
Variety is the spice of life
He’s such a great chatacter! I love him. Thank you TED!
Classrooms in 10 years:
I would prefer it. You’d get more trained professionals spread more widely. No human contact – my anxiety adores that.
This is happening now.
Yes- Novelty!!!
I’ve always thought about life as an ‘Emergent Property’ of the physical universe- Life eventually begets communal knowledge that will affect the physical universe, unknowingly & knowingly- “We are star-stuff”- Carl Sagan
Awesome talk, everyone should hear it.
This reminds me of what Sheldon Cooper did in The Big Bang Theory… HEY DAVID DID LEONARD ALSO DRIVE YOU TO THAT TALK?!
*IN THE GRIM DARKNESS OF THE 41 MILLENNIUM, THERE IS ONLY WAR*
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH
This, reminds me of Sheldon Cooper.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bIoeBpSeU4
When David Deutsch speaks I listen intently and learn. I thank you sir
شكرا لكم ترجموا لنا الفيديو إلى اللغة العربية
HFY!
Lol. It is still 2019.