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The Beginning of Infinity
AI source guide
How can I apply this idea: Knowledge is not derived from sensory experience by induction; it is created by conjecture and winnowed by criticism, and a genuinely good explanation is one that is hard to vary while still accounting for what it purports to account for, which is why good explanations reach far beyond the evidence that inspired them?
How can I apply this idea: Scientific instruments make us more certain of reality, not less, even though physically they only ever interpose more material between us and the thing observed, because each additional layer carries theory that corrects for error, illusion, and misleading perspective?
How can I apply this idea: Two fashionable ideas, the Principle of Mediocrity (humans are insignificant) and the Spaceship Earth metaphor (the biosphere is a life-support system we are ungratefully wrecking), are both factually false and self-undermining; because humans are universal explainers and universal constructors, problems are inevitable but always soluble, which makes people the most significant phenomenon in the cosmic scheme of things?
