@misc{Lexicon of Arguments, title = {Quotation from: Lexicon of Arguments – Concepts - Ed. Martin Schulz, 29 Mar 2024}, author = {Deutsch,David}, subject = {Understanding}, note = {I 149 Understanding: for the reality to be understandable, the laws of nature must be incorporated in another object: the one, that understands - I 240 Understanding: While everything is understandable in physical reality, the intelligible mathematical truths are a tiny minority, which coincidentally corresponds to a physical truth! >Laws of nature, >Reality, >Mathematics, >World/thinking. - - - Brockman I 123 Understanding/Deutsch: In the broadest sense, a person’s quest for understanding is indeed a search problem, in an abstract space of ideas far too large to be searched exhaustively. But there is no predetermined objective of this search. There is, as Popper put it, no criterion of truth, nor of probable truth, especially in regard to explanatory knowledge. Objectives are ideas like any others—created as part of the search and continually modified and improved. >Criteria/Popper, >Artificial General Intelligence/Deutsch. Deutsch, D. “Beyond Reward and Punishment” in: Brockman, John (ed.) 2019. Twenty-Five Ways of Looking at AI. New York: Penguin Press.}, note = { Deutsch I D. Deutsch Fabric of Reality, Harmondsworth 1997 German Edition: Die Physik der Welterkenntnis München 2000 Brockman I John Brockman Possible Minds: Twenty-Five Ways of Looking at AI New York 2019 }, file = {http://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=281072} url = {http://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=281072} }