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Just finished Diaspora. It made me feel rather stupid, as the analogies it weaves throughout (as way to dumb it down I suppose) were sort of like reading the cl
by nkingsy 6y ago
Just finished Diaspora. It made me feel rather stupid, as the analogies it weaves throughout (as way to dumb it down I suppose) were sort of like reading the cliff notes. Okay 6 dimensions, ok 12 sure. And this one is 5 dimensions but they’re all sort of visible or something. But really it’s infinite dimensions and all that science proofing I skimmed was wrong. Great.
I did love the artificial mind part in the beginning. Is this book a deeper dive on that?
- askvictor 6y agoAll of Egan's books make me feel stupid, but in the best possible way :) I always feel I'm getting half the picture but would need a PhD in whatever speciality he's focussing on in this book to get the whole thing, yet thoroughly enjoy every book all the same. Permutation City is something of a different take on the artificial mind to Diaspora. Schild's Ladder deals also has the artificial mind theme, perhaps a bit closer to Diaspora, but with it's own take again.