This episode relies heavily on video components, so you’ll want to watch it on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHR6roiZjQ8
Apologies for the audio quality in this episode; it varies and cuts out sometimes.
References
- David Deutsch, “The Beginning of Infinity” chapter 10, “A Dream of Socrates”- Stephen Hawking, “A Brief History of Time”- David Deutsch, “The Beginning of Infinity” chapter 7, “Artificial Creativity”- David Deutsch, “The Fabric of Reality” chapter 6, “Universality and the Limits of Computation”
Further reading
- QuickCheck: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/QuickCheck- “Turtles all the way down” concept: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down- “Why is the Quantum so Strange?” - interview with David explaining computation (among other things): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MckuBQC6gKU- The Clojure programming language: https://clojure.org/
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