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It can be tempting, when first introduced to a deep concept of physics like Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, to draw grand
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David Deutsch is one of the most creative scientific thinkers working today, who has as a goal to understand and
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The study of cognition and sentience would be greatly abetted by the discovery of intelligent alien beings, who presumably developed
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