Increments

#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:

  • Formal systems 
  • Formal languages
  • Modular Arithmetic
  • Rules of inference
  • Alternative Logics


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 [email protected]. 


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