#24 - Popper's Three Worlds

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This episode begins with a big announcement! Ben has officially become a cat person, and is now Taking Cats Seriously. Vaden follows up with some news of his own, before diving into the main subject for today's episode - Popper's Three Worlds.
In this episode we discuss:

The TCS parenting movement
Chesto's tweet to Deutsch
How Popper's Three Worlds differs from Deutsch's Things/Qualia/Abstractions classification
Would prime numbers exist if humans didn't exist?
What constitutes reality?
The existence of non-physical entities and the reality of abstractions

Having a quick glance at the following wikipedia pages will help ground the conversation:

Errata:

Somewhere Vaden says English is a formal language. Nope definitely not - English is natural language, which is distinct from a formal language.

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