Anthropocentrism
Copenhagen Interpretation: Niels Bohr’s combination of instrumentalism, anthropocentrism and studied ambiguity, used to avoid understanding quantum theory as being about reality. —
David Deutsch, The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
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Most ancient accounts of the reality beyond our everyday experience were not only false, they had a radically different character from modern ones: they were anthropocentric. That is to say, they centred on human beings, and more broadly on people – entities with intentions and human-like thoughts – which included powerful, supernatural people such as spirits and gods. —
David Deutsch, The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
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Person: An entity that can create explanatory knowledge. —
David Deutsch, The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World