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Diaspora
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bookshelves: linguistics-and-philosophy, science-fiction, transcendent-experiences
Apr 03, 2021
bookshelves: linguistics-and-philosophy, science-fiction, transcendent-experiences
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March 31, 2021
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Started Reading
March 31, 2021
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March 31, 2021
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10.64%
"You know you're in a Greg Egan book when...
... the first 40 pages are a detailed, from-first-principles account of how consciousness could arise in a neural network, using non-standard pronouns."
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40
... the first 40 pages are a detailed, from-first-principles account of how consciousness could arise in a neural network, using non-standard pronouns."
April 1, 2021
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30.59%
"Spoiler alert: this book turns out to have a plot. Yes, Greg Egan fooled me again!"
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115
April 2, 2021
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66.49%
"All human life on Earth is now extinct. But that's so marginally relevant to the central story about the relationship between mathematics and reality that I don't think it even qualifies as a proper spoiler."
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250
April 3, 2021
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linguistics-and-philosophy
April 3, 2021
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science-fiction
April 3, 2021
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transcendent-experiences
April 3, 2021
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Finished Reading
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Apr 03, 2021 06:43PM
Did the plot only start at p115, or did you just fail to spot it earlier?
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I was fooled twice. I was sure there was a plot, since the world was going to end and people seemed pretty upset about that, but in the end didn't it turn out to be very important compared with the transhumanist philosophy. Greg Egan is so tricky.
Manny wrote: "I was fooled twice. I was sure there was going to be a plot, since the world was going to end and people seemed pretty upset about that, but in the end didn't it turn out to be very important compa..."Sounds like it could redefine plot teaser.
I don't want to make it sound like nothing happens. There's a great sequence where they (view spoiler)! And that's just one example.
