David Deutsch: A new way to explain explanation
发布时间 2009-10-26 15:06:04 来源
摘要
http://www.ted.com For tens of thousands of years our ancestors understood the world through myths, and the pace of change was glacial. The rise of scientific understanding transformed the world within a few centuries. Why? Physicist David Deutsch proposes a subtle answer.
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