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It's yonks since I read it, but IIRC Olaf Stapledon's Star Maker (1937) played with (alongside everything else) the idea of stars as life-forms themselves. I'd
by mrec 3y ago
It's yonks since I read it, but IIRC Olaf Stapledon's Star Maker (1937) played with (alongside everything else) the idea of stars as life-forms themselves.
I'd strongly recommend it; it's very weird and obviously quite dated, but nothing else ever written even comes close for sheer ambition.
- n4r9 3y agoAt university I went to a talk called "Is the sun conscious?" By Rupert Sheldrake. He's also written up an article which mentions Starmaker: https://www.sheldrake.org/files/pdfs/papers/Is_the_Sun_Conscious.pdf https://www.sheldrake.org/files/pdfs/papers/Is_the_Sun_Consc... I'll save you the reading, as he doesn't provide any evidence for the proposition. He merely speculates on what it might mean for the sun to be conscious. Also he's way out there on the wacky scale. I sank a lot of time reading his works as an undergraduate, as they're couched in quite scientific terms and he claims to have conducted rigorous experiments. But the more you look into the experiments, the more methodological flaws you find, and eventually I decided it wasn't worth the effort.