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    Are We Important to the Universe?

    by Michael Segal May 14, 2013 1 minute

    Is there something special about humanity’s method of understanding the world around us? If there are other intelligent beings in the world, would their knowledge be important in the same way?

    ‘s research suggests an affirmative answer to both questions., argues that humans possess a tremendous power in our ability to construct explanations that conform to objective truths of the natural world. This ability, he says, is the driver of a huge amount of ongoing progress and profoundly significant. Watch his explanation of explanation below, and see the transcript under the video.

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