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David Deutsch

Nacido: May 18, 1953 – Haifa, Haifa District, Israel

David Deutsch is a British physicist and writer known for foundational work in quantum computation and for popularizing ideas about science, knowledge, and progress. Based at the University of Oxford, he wrote The Fabric of Reality and The Beginning of Infinity, and is widely regarded as a pioneer of the quantum computer.

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David Deutsch is a British physicist and author whose career has unfolded at the intersection of theoretical physics, computation, and philosophy. Born in Haifa, Israel, he studied physics at Cambridge and Oxford, spent several years at the University of Texas at Austin, and then returned to Oxford, where he became a founder member of the Centre for Quantum Computation and later a Visiting Professor of Physics. The central turning point in his scientific life came in 1985, when he set out the idea of a universal quantum computer, work Oxford has since described as foundational to quantum computation and the qubit. Over time, that work brought major recognition, including election to the Royal Society, the Isaac Newton Medal and Prize, and the 2023 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. ((https://www.daviddeutsch.org.uk/about-me/?utm_source=openai))

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Every problem that is interesting is also soluble
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There is no anthropocentric spite built into the laws of physics
-About Whether Solutions in General Are Possible
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This, in turn, makes it ultimately a physical fact – but that is another story
-How are moral assertions connected with the world of facts?
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Whenever we fail to take that question seriously enough, we are blinded to gaps in our favoured explanation
-And why?
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Throughout its history, the scientific community has shown great integrity in resisting the onslaught of anti-rationalism
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Change is always continuous in both space and time
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Only a physical object can compute things
-Constructor Theory
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Reality becomes a vastly, exponentially bigger and more complex thing than it was under classical physics
-It's a Much Bigger Thing Than It Looks
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"Science has never had an advocate quite like David Deutsch"

The Independent

"David Deutsch is a deeply knowledgeable professional physicist"

Richard Dawkins

"David Deutsch is the world’s first true philosopher of freedom ever"

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"David Deutsch may well go down in history as one of the great scientists of our age"

The Scotsman

"David Deutsch, Oxford University theoretical physicist, is credited with being the father of quantum computing"

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"David Deutsch is one of Britain’s most original thinkers"

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"Physicist David Deutsch is considered the founding father of quantum computing"

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