Virtual Reality Is How Reality Reaches You
23 Nov 2025In Chapter 5 of The Fabric of Reality, David Deutsch pushes his criterion for reality to its limit with a thought experiment: Suppose that you lived insi...
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The Fabric of Reality (5)
A chapter-by-chapter exploration of The Fabric of Reality, unpacking Deutsch’s ideas through systems thinking and deep structural analysis.
Invisible but Real: Software as part of the Fabric of Reality
19 Nov 2025After reading my summary of Chapter 4 of The Fabric of Reality, my friend Michael challenged me to distil David Deutsch’s core mental model into something th...
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How We Know What's Real: Deutsch's Criterion for Reality
14 Nov 2025How can we know what’s real or not? That’s the key question David Deutsch sets out to answer in Chapter 4 of The Fabric of Reality (TFoR). David offers logi...
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A Practical Guide to Popper's Epistemology (via David Deutsch)
03 Nov 2025Where does knowledge come from? How do we decide that one explanation is better than another? These are foundational questions across every field of human in...
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David Deutsch's Case Against Induction
30 Oct 2025In The Fabric of Reality (TFoR), chapter 3, David Deutsch mounts a direct critique of inductivism. This is worth understanding because inductive reasoning i...
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