1-2g2e What science and creative thought in general achieves is unpredictable creation out of nothing. That is, creation of knowledge. And so is biological evolution (i.e., life).

I once thought one cannot hold contradictory worldviews, but Hegelian philosophy demonstrates not only that we can but also that we transcend them and that this is how we create knowledge.

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• 1-2g2f The virtual-reality rendering of their environment (i.e., creating knowledge about its niches) is the characteristic means by which human beings (and life in general) survive

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• 1-2g2c Knowledge must be first conjectured (i.e., created) and then tested. That’s what life has been doing all along, according to Darwin’s theory. It can’t be derived mechanically (Lamarckism is wrong).
• However, we are self-aware of the fact that we can create knowledge:
• 9-4b2d1 Explanatory knowledge creation ≠ Biological knowledge (the former, specifically scientific knowledge, is more composable, and thus more universal)
• The question is: how did we (life) become self-aware?TheTuringPrinciple
• 1-2g2b1 Constructor Theory defines knowledge independent of people
• 9-4b2a1a Brains mimic the evolution of life, both generally and literally
• Deutsch - Consciousness is clearly intimately related to the growth and representation of knowledge within the brainmultiversedevelop
• RUL3 - Ask at night how what you’ve learned that day fits into your web of ideas, and search for overlaps and contradictions. Most people do not do this.
• 9-4b2a1f Two-way debate benefits from criticism