Saturday, September 17

            According to Oxford physics professor David Deutsch’s new book, The Beginning of Infinity, Explanations hat Transform the World, there are four deep strands of existing knowledge: the theories of evolution; quantum physics; information; and computation, and that these help lead to his own theory that progress will be inevitable and sustainable.  His view is optimistic, that is, that we will always be able to eventually solve our challenges becuase of the very nature of how we solve problems which is to discard wrong solutions and to try new ones.