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#24 - Popper's Three Worlds
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This episode begins with a big announcement! Ben has officially become a cat person, and is now Taking Cats Seriously. Vaden follows up with some news of his own, before diving into the main subject for today's episode - Popper's Three Worlds.
In this episode we discuss:
- The TCS parenting movement
- Chesto's tweet to Deutsch
- How Popper's Three Worlds differs from Deutsch's Things/Qualia/Abstractions classification
- Would prime numbers exist if humans didn't exist?
- What constitutes reality?
- The existence of non-physical entities and the reality of abstractions
Having a quick glance at the following wikipedia pages will help ground the conversation:
Errata:
- Somewhere Vaden says English is a formal language. Nope definitely not - English is natural language, which is distinct from a formal language.
Send us your best guess for whether or not we're real at incrementspodcast@gmail.com.
71 episodes
Manage episode 347567538 series 3418237
This episode begins with a big announcement! Ben has officially become a cat person, and is now Taking Cats Seriously. Vaden follows up with some news of his own, before diving into the main subject for today's episode - Popper's Three Worlds.
In this episode we discuss:
- The TCS parenting movement
- Chesto's tweet to Deutsch
- How Popper's Three Worlds differs from Deutsch's Things/Qualia/Abstractions classification
- Would prime numbers exist if humans didn't exist?
- What constitutes reality?
- The existence of non-physical entities and the reality of abstractions
Having a quick glance at the following wikipedia pages will help ground the conversation:
Errata:
- Somewhere Vaden says English is a formal language. Nope definitely not - English is natural language, which is distinct from a formal language.
Send us your best guess for whether or not we're real at incrementspodcast@gmail.com.
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