Feynman suggested "Everything is made of atoms" as the one sentence he would want preserved if all knowledge were wiped out. My own choice would be quite different.https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/09/11/richard-feynman-lectures-on-physics/ …
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I'd go with some version of Newton's First Law: "An object at rest stays at rest, and one in motion continues in uniform motion, unless acted on by a force." https://www.physicsclassroom.com/class/newtlaws/Lesson-1/Newton-s-First-Law …
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All models are expressed in languages, and all languages must be implemented as finite automata. But if that is considered too abstract, I'd go with the first law of epistemology: Let confidence equal the weight of the evidence.
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It's like Popper wrote a book with Eccles based on an epistemologically unsound version of dualism. Nobody is safe!
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