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• Is the human race a universal constructor?

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• Every problem that is interesting is also soluble.

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• I myself believe that there will one day be time travel because when we find that something isn’t forbidden by the over-arching laws of physics we usually eventually find a technological way of doing it.

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• It is possible to build a virtual-reality generator whose repertoire includes every possible environment.

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• Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense.

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• Quantum computation is… a distinctively new way of harnessing nature… It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes.

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• The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests.

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• The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level of the predictive hierarchy, but the ones that contain the deepest explanations.

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• Time travel may be achieved one day, or it may not. But if it is, it should not require any fundamental change in world-view, at least for those who broadly share the world view I am presenting in this book.

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Birth:	18th May, 1953
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Physicist

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David Elieser Deutsch was born in Haifa, Israel. He is a British physicist at the University of Oxford. He is a non-stipendiary Visiting Professor in the Department of Atomic and Laser Physics at the Centre for Quantum Computation in the Clarendon Laboratory of the University of Oxford. He went on to Wolfson College, Oxford for his doctorate in theoretical physics and wrote his thesis on quantum field theory in curved space-time.   He is currently working on constructor theory, an attempt at generalizing the quantum theory of computation to cover not just computation but all physical processes.

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