David Deutsch: A new way to explain explanation

About this film

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.

Directors & creators

TED.com

Subjects

TEDTalks, TED, Talks, cosmos, faith, history, philosophy, physics, religion, science, technology, TEDGlobal 2009, 2009

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