Contents
Part I What is Science All About?
1 The Ultimate Question
3
1.1
A Dialogue Between Two Robots
3
1.2
The Awakening of Segismundo
6
1.3
Do Horses Exist?
7
1.4
Is There Only One Truth?
12
1.5
An Oddly Named Asteroid
14
1.6
The Limits of Science
18
References
21
2 The Meaning of Understanding
23
2.1
The Origin of Intelligence
23
2.2
Logic, and Its Role in Science
26
2.3
Pattern Recognition
28
2.4
Complexity
30
2.5
Understanding
36
References
37
3 Truth and Beauty
39
3.1
A Journey to the Himalayas
39
3.2
A Comparison Between Mathematical and Physical
Truth
41
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