2-1a6c0 If you don’t create an explanation, you will be enmeshed in the situation (analog). You have to transcend your situation-culture-parochiality by explanations (digital). Explanation is the way to universality.

There would be no need for a Turing test per se, if we had good explanation for how the program creates knowledge
1-2f1b3 Merely dropping a theory because it doesn’t work is behaviorism and is not error-correction. It’s analog reasoning in disguise. You need explanation.
To say that “something is wrong” requires explanations
Remember: it’s easier to say “this is wrong” than “this is right”
1-2g2t3d Because creation (and growth) of knowledge is in essence error-correction, and because being wrong is way easier than being right, knowledge-creating-bearing entities will become more alike (and thrive) across the multiverse
5-1b1a1 Improving on already existent technology by removing one of its restraints amounts to innovation
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1-2f1b3a Deutsch - ‘Nor is a person capable of making progress merely by virtue of being willing to drop a theory when it is refuted; one must also be seeking a better explanation of the relevant phenomena. That is the scientific frame of mind.‘
1-2f1b4 The content of a theory is in what it rules out (and how!)