
The cosmic war between monotony and creativity | David Deutsch
"We are users of cosmic forces."
TED Talks Daily · TED
October 14, 201914m 38s
Show Notes
Theoretical physicist David Deutsch delivers a mind-bending meditation on the "great monotony" -- the idea that nothing novel has appeared in the universe for billions of years -- and shows how humanity's capacity to create explanatory knowledge could be the thing that bucks this trend. "Humans are not playthings of cosmic forces," he says. "We are users of cosmic forces."
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