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At the centre Science can identify problems but cannot by itself tell us what to do about them. Holds JCJason Crawford Read this korrent →

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• Same subject: physics A theory of everything would not finish physics: Turing and Church laid down computation's theory of everything in the 1930s and we have spent ninety years exploring the consequences. Holds MNMichael Nielsen
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