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Today I'm speaking with David Deutsch.

David is a physicist at Oxford.

He's a professor of physics at the Center for Quantum Computation at Clarence and Laptopry.

And he works on the quantum theory of computation and information, and he is a very famous exponent

of the many worlds interpretation quantum mechanics.

Neither of which do we talk about in this interview.

David has a fascinating and capacious mind, as you will see.

And we talk about much of the other material in his most recent book, The Beginning of

Infinity.

And we by no means cover all of its contents.

But as you'll see, David has a talent for expressing scientifically and philosophically

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