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XII : Open Societies, Moral Knowledge, and Civilizational Design
Why societies that stay open keep building the future
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XI : The Deutschian Mindset for Life and Systems
From individuals to institutions: how fallibilism, optimism, and creativity power resilient systems of knowledge
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X : Mental Maps, Frameworks, and Flywheels
The Operating System for How We See, Act, and Progress
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IX : The Beginning of Infinity - The Idea of Open-Ended Progress
From error correction to moral progress, why the idea of infinite improvability reshapes how we see science, society, and the future
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VIII : Problems Are Soluble - That Changes Everything
Why every 'impossible' problem is just a question we haven’t answered yet and how that belief powers progress.
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VII : Good Explanations Drive Knowledge Forward
From cholera maps to bending space-time — how hard-to-vary explanations unlock breakthroughs and shape the future of knowledge
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VI : Evolution - How Biology and Culture Create Knowledge Through Variation and Selection
Why the same process that gave us eyes and wings also gave us science and art
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V : Computation - The Universe Computes Itself
From Ancient Algorithms to Quantum Code — Understanding the Engine Behind Reality
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IV : Epistemology - How Knowledge Grows Through Conjecture and Criticism
Why progress depends on bold guesses, relentless questioning, and the courage to be wrong
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III : Quantum Theory - Reality Is a Multiverse
The physics that underpins David Deutsch’s vision of infinite progress
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II : The Big Questions Both Books Answer
Reality, Knowledge, Progress, and the Societies That Enable Them
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July 2025

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