David Deutsch

British · b. 1953

David Deutsch is a British physicist at Oxford University, widely regarded as the father of quantum computing and a proponent of the many-worlds interpretation. He is best known outside physics for The Beginning of Infinity (2011), a sweeping argument that human knowledge — and thus human progress — is in principle unbounded. His framework, in which humans figure as universal explainers whose knowledge-creation is the one force capable of reversing entropy, provides a recurring reference point for thinking about creativity, civilisational decline, and the limits of pessimism. He extends Karl Popper's epistemology beyond science into a general theory of knowledge.

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