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My favorite books about mind emulation: * "Fall, Or Dodge in Hell" by Neil Stephenson [1] * "Permutation City" by Greg Egan [2] [1] https://www.amazon.com/dp

• greatquux 6y ago
  Yes, "Fall" was really great! It was after reading it that I decided I didn't want to emulate my mind anymore. :)
• abecedarius 6y ago
  Whole Brain Emulation Roadmap http://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/Reports/2008-3.pdf http://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/Reports/2008-3.pdf The Age of Em https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0198754620/ https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0198754620/
  • sriku 6y ago
    Thumbs up for "The Age of Em". A nice example of how to assume a technology and work out economic consequences. Hanson goes into some good detail and includes physical constraints, emergent properties like relative time elapsed for simulated minds when transferring between locations and such.
• NickM 6y ago
  I really loved Permutation City, and loved the beginning of Fall, but man it felt like Fall just turned into a really hard slog after a certain point. I have definitely enjoyed some of Neal Stephenson's other novels too, even slower-paced ones like Anathem, but for some reason Fall just didn't do it for me.
  • microtherion 6y ago
    I agree that the middle of the novel was dragging, but after a while, the story was picking up speed again for me. Stephenson's early novels suffered from weak endings, IMHO. His newer ones (Fall, Seveneves) suffer from bloated midsections).
• Trasmatta 6y ago
  And for games, SOMA is probably the best example.