How Do We Know What We Know About Magic: The Gathering

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Andy and Anthony finally just talk about epistemology and sort of address Magic: the Gathering. They talk about the way we all generally learn things and incorporate them into our understanding of the world around us, and how that manifests in the smaller world of the game.
Discussed in this episode:
• ContraPoints (youtube.com/contrapoints) on YouTube
• The Beginning of Infinity (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beginning_of_Infinity) by David Deutsch
• Every Living Thing (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Every_Living_Thing:_The_…) by Jason Roberts
• 100 Ornithopters (cubecobra.com/cube/about/100-ornithopters?view…)
• Regular Cube (cubecobra.com/cube/about/regular?view=primer)
• Cascade Cascade (cascadecascade.com)
• Cube Map (luckypaper.co/resources/cube-map)
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• Andy’s “Bun Magic” Cube (cubecobra.com/cube/overview/andymangold)
• Anthony’s “Regular” Cube (cubecobra.com/cube/overview/regular)
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Timestamps
• 0:00 - Intro
• 4:55 - Epistemology
• 11:43 - The Enlightenment
• 14:43 - Authority
• 20:29 - Empiricism
• 26:49 - Explanations
• 29:58 - Science as a Creative Process
• 33:18 - Knowledge in Magic
• 37:04 - Emergent Properties
• 41:54 - Aggro-Midrange-Control
• 45:53 - Cube Experiments
• 51:10 - Mailbag!