<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Ben, I guess it was the end of the book that really turned me against it. All those universes - I just could not follow what was going on. If you have read any other books by him that weren't so heavy with technical detail and interested you, I would give them a try. This one just did not work for me. bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 5:52 PM Ben via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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On 24/03/2021 22:53, billw wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Just 'finished'
this book by GReg Egan, Content: speculative fixed point
topology, speculative nuclear physics, multiple universes, etc.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">I estimate that I
skipped about 85% of the book - a first for me.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Probably more like
90%</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Hard? Nope -
adamantine. Way, way over my head. Characters aren't
interesting either. But I plugged away just to find out if I
could understand any of it. Maybe 5%.</div>
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Well, I can't say that I really understood the physics and maths in
it either, but I still rate it as one of my favourite books ever.
And the joke about the wormhole experiment really tickled me.<br>
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It's strange how people see things so differently. I would have
listed the content as: Life as an Upload, branching identity,
futuristic reproduction and upbringing, existential threat writ
large, elusive aliens, multiple universes, black holes, human
psychology, etc. And wormholes.<br>
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Ben<br>
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