Alex O'Connor
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2,073 appearances
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2 series
first heard Sep 2025
last heard 25 May
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And whenever there's a new line, they use the big one as interesting.
And you call that the law of capitalization.
And then you notice that there are all of these little symbols, unlike the letters, little dots and squiggles, and you realize that they show up in predictable ways.
And you call that the law of punctuation.
and you're able to predict.
If you're really clever, you might notice that if you say it out loud, it follows a particular rhythm.
And you call that the law of iambic pentameter, because you're getting really clever now.
And you can predict that if I turn over the page, I'm going to see something that follows these rules.
What you're discovering, of course, are the laws of literacy.
And then suppose I came along after all of that and said, okay, so where do you think the book came from?
And you said, well, we don't know yet, but look at all the progress we're making with the laws that we've discovered.
I'm sure that one day these laws of literacy will explain where the book came from.
You'd be making a category error.
And I think the physicist does the same thing in saying that physics will one day explain the origin of physical matter, because physics is the study of physical matter and therefore presupposes its existence.
A question like that I don't think can be answered by science.
I'm really not talking to the 10-year-old anymore.
Okay, Dad, can I get a bed now?
Yeah, go ahead.
But the reason I bring that up, it's to say... I remember I was kind of talking about consciousness.
It's all related because people have a similar view of consciousness.
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