具体描述
"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.
作者简介
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.
-stephen fry
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评分经济支出：0 （下载的pdf） 时间支出：约5小时 之前看推荐，以为会多颠覆自己对生命的认知。不过翻完之后最大的感受是，作者的想象力挺丰富的，从最最基础的地方去设想一个完全不一样的世界。 属于我不会推荐给别人看的书。
评分 评分我一共用了8个阅读次数完成。 书的内容犹如它的副标题 “forty tales from the Afterlife ” 四十条往生的小故事。算是作者对人过身之后灵魂经历的脑洞小故事。 故事与故事是独立分开的，不是小说，有点散文集的样子，有一种反思生命活着的意义的感觉。 正式阅读之前我非常担心...
评分总起来讲，这是一部用几何学的逻辑，结合20世纪的科学知识背景以及西方式的人文情怀写成的书.作者乃文科背景,后来又成为美国排名前几的医学院（贝勒医学院，Baylor College of Medicine）的主任.这种经历使得作者可以在这个几千年来充满了宗教和迷信(或者其他一切武断的论述)的...
用户评价
a bit geeky, i know. but i'm a geeky person after all.
评分很有趣，看来我也是个Possibilianism.
评分I LOVE DAVID EAGLEMAN.
评分奇特的想象与深邃的洞察 生命是醒着的梦，你只活这一次，勇敢一点，感恩珍惜拥有的一切，不要留下遗憾
评分since we live in the heads of those who remember us, we lose control of our lives and become who they want us to be.
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