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Also known as David Elieser Deutsch

British physicist

Person · Open Library

Born
1756
Died
1831
Works
8

Top works

  • Ḥomat esh
  • Shir
  • Die Orgel in der Synagoge
  • ʻAl masekhet Shevuʻot
  • Sefer Ohel Daṿid

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Sweden
Active from
1953
dark ambientindustrialritual ambientswedenswedish

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
1,399
Total plays
2,954

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Quotes

  • A computation is a physical process in which physical objects like computers, or slide rules or brains are used to discover, or to demonstrate or to harness properties of abstract objects—like numbers and equations. How can they do that? The answer is that we use them only in situations where to the best of our understanding the laws of physics will cause physical variables like electric currents in computers (representing bits) faithfully to mimic the abstract entities that we’re interested in.
  • Surely it is more interesting to argue about what the truth is, than about what some particular thinker, however great, did or did not think.
  • Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense...
  • The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level of the predictive hierarchy—but the ones that contain the deepest explanations.
  • The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests.
  • A prediction, or any assertion, that cannot be defended might still be true, but an explanation that cannot be defended is not an explanation.

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