05 – Knowledge in Computer Programs

Artificial Creativity

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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/

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