05 – Knowledge in Computer Programs

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/ If you have any questions or comments, please leave them here or tweet at me: https://twitter.com/dchackethal