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Science is humankind’s magnificent achievement, the way of thinking to discern facts and truths and to reject errors and myths. But how to understand the scientific method itself and what is it really that science is learning? That’s the role of philosophy. For example, when science discerns ‘regularities’ in nature, are these ‘laws’ of nature?

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Scott Joel Aaronson is a theoretical computer scientist and faculty member in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His primary area of research is quantum computing and computational complexity theory more generally.

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