具體描述
"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.
著者簡介
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
http://twitter.com/stephenfry
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讀後感
一本薄书，能让你看楞那么一下，有那么一两句话，让你停一下，想象。 5万字，敢卖20块钱，算得上打劫。 “你治病为了什么”，为了快些好，好了之后做什么？难道等死吗？几个循环问题，有点未来，有点哲学，有点呓语。 每个故事都不长，不到1500字，却能发到《科学》上去，值得...
評分 評分总起来讲，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...
評分用戶評價
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(◐‿◑)
评分I LOVE DAVID EAGLEMAN.
评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。
评分天馬行空
评分很有趣，看來我也是個Possibilianism.
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