The Beginning of Infinity

The Beginning of Infinity

By David Deutsch
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“A brilliant and exhilarating and profoundly eccentric book. It’s about everything: art, science, philosophy, history, politics, evil, death, the future, infinity, bugs, thumbs, what have you…It hardly seems worth saying…that the chutzpah of this guy is almost beyond belief, and that any book with these sorts of ambitions is necessarily, in some overall sense, a failure, or a fraud, or a joke, or madness. But Deutsch…is so smart, and so strange, and so creative, and so inexhaustibly curious, and so vividly intellectually alive, that it is a distinct privilege, notwithstanding everything, to spend time in his head.”

New York Times Book Review

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 explanations have 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 physics, and they impose no upper boundary to what we can eventually understand, control, and achieve.

In his previous book, The Fabric of Reality, Deutsch describe the four deepest strands of existing knowledge-the theories of evolution, quantum physics, knowledge, and computation-arguing jointly they reveal a unified fabric of reality. In this new book, he applies that worldview to a wide range of issues and unsolved problems, from creativity and free will to the origin and future of the human species. Filled with startling new conclusions about human choice, optimism, scientific explanation, and the evolution of culture, The Beginning of Infinity is a groundbreaking audio book that will become a classic of its kind.

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    Best Science Audiobook Ever

    Everyone needs to hear this book, whether they disagree with Darwinism or multi-universe theory or not. The reason is simple: it lays out exactly how science works. Not from observation to theory, but from conjecture to observation and theory. The Earth is not flat, and this book shows why so many conspiracy theories like that are false. The eye is the least important tool of science, and the most easily deceived. Einstein's theories happened on paper and in his mind before ever proven in the real world. The book reveals all the fallacies of logic employed by those trying to fool the masses, who don't understand science. It is not pessimistic, but optimistic about the future, revealing that all problems can be solved, and that finding "better explanations" (the goal of science) has infinite reach. A good explanation? That's one hard to vary, and universal in scope. People and ideas come and go, but the laws of science never change, and our focus should be on discovery and refinement. Top 10 audiobook I've ever heard, and I've heard thousands.

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