You will not read a more dazzling book this year than David Eagleman's "Sum". If you read it and aren't enchanted I will eat 40 hats.
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"SUM" is a dazzling exploration of funny and unexpected afterlives that have never been considered-each presented as a vignette that offers us a stunning lens through which to see ourselves here and now. In one afterlife you may find that God is the size of a microbe and is unaware of your existence. In another, your creators are a species of dim-witted creatures who built us to figure out what they could not. In a different version of the afterlife you work as a background character in other people's dreams. Or you may find that God is a married couple struggling with discontent, or that the afterlife contains only those people whom you remember, or that the hereafter includes the thousands of previous gods who no longer attract followers. In some afterlives you are split into your different ages; in some you are forced to live with annoying versions of yourself that represent what you could have been; in others you are re-created from your credit card records and Internet history. David Eagleman proposes many versions of our purpose here; we are mobile robots for cosmic mapmakers, we are reunions for a scattered confederacy of atoms, we are experimental subjects for gods trying to understand what makes couples stick together. These wonderfully imagined tale-at once funny, wistful, and unsettling-are rooted in science and romance and awe at our mysterious existence: a mixture of death, hope, computers, immortality, love, biology, and desire that exposes radiant new facets of our humanity.
發表於2024-06-14
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關於生命的書,一直很吸引我。沒看之前超期待,看完真是沒想法。有豆友在論壇說,大陸版跟颱版完全是兩本書。好吧,沒準真是內地編輯搞得鬼……比起正文,我反而很喜歡張國慶的推薦序,很有意思。 110717下外公傢
評分經濟支齣:0 (下載的pdf) 時間支齣:約5小時 之前看推薦,以為會多顛覆自己對生命的認知。不過翻完之後最大的感受是,作者的想象力挺豐富的,從最最基礎的地方去設想一個完全不一樣的世界。 屬於我不會推薦給彆人看的書。
評分終於在書的最後一章“重生”中讀懂瞭作者到底想錶達什麼,前麵一直在寫來生、死亡、上帝··· 關於來世問題,作者描寫瞭40種來世的景象,並在一開篇即提齣瞭一係列的問題:“在來世,你會重新經曆一遍你生前的生活。不過這一次,所有的事件要重新調整:過去生活中相同...
評分圖書標籤: DavidEagleman 小說 神經科學 哲學 科幻 生活 散文 Eagleman
想安排Ted Chiang和David Eagleman成為好基友,然後我就可以天天????️cp文看瞭(◐‿◑)
評分好愛
評分四十種死後的世界。很久沒見過的本科同學夏從芝加哥過來舊金山開會,我們在一個四川小餐館裏麵聊天,他介紹瞭這本書。
評分audiobook 天馬行空的死後世界 Gillian Anderson隻讀瞭最後一篇嗚嗚嗚
評分有幾個小故事也很適閤拍成愛死機這種帶實驗性質的短片呢
Sum 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載