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ahead of its time. visionary

Revisado: 07-05-24

surprised how an author from mid 20th century when there were only punch card computers could imagine so many scenarios. it's like the original black mirror

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Advanced topics made understandable enough

Revisado: 04-28-22

For the rest of us mortals we can at least imagine strings and concepts like curled up dimensions. very entertaining and the narrator channels Brian Greene's message superbly.

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Interesting, educational, humorous

Revisado: 03-23-22

short tight understanding of the basics of game theory some real world appñications always with an entertaining narration.

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Better than sci fi

Revisado: 02-19-22

The possibilities and scenarios imagined are outstanding I didn't like the narrator's voice was too harsh sounding.

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Clearly digestible on the popular bizarre theories

Revisado: 02-17-22

The best part is that the approach is like a story of Sabine's experience getting interviews with experts for this scrutinization of the elegant theories that attract and confuse most people who are interested in the developments of physics and scientific research.
This is also aimed at exoerts and the holders of grants, resources, and programs for physicists and students.
A great approach to not lose perspective or go to deep on theories and models that have not produced evidence at the cost of other approaches being neglected which may also contribute.

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Controlled hallucinations and digital brains

Revisado: 02-13-22

an expert opinion brain matters it's important especially in this times of theories and simulations and digital Consciousness and artificial intelligence.

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Culture down the middle

Revisado: 01-14-22

Learned about different sub cultures, practices , it is down the middle, culturizing, nothing extraordinary but not terrible either. Worth listening at 1.35x speed cuz the author is a bit too slow and I feel the unabridged version is too long for the content.
Does help remove stigmatizations of music, sex, religions, spiritual practices, even BDSM.

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Excellent education on real and fake conspiracies

Revisado: 12-03-21

I had listened to the Believing Brain Audiobook so felt repetitive, but the best parts were the real conspiracies, sometimes they really are out to get you.

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A mix of good and bad chapters and arguments

Revisado: 11-09-21

This turned out to be like a Deepak Chopra book where he asserts that his simulated hypothesis is proof of every religion in the world. Every UFO and every ghost story OMG. When he is talking facts, he is just running through the history of videogames, how they work from a birds ‘eye view.
I think it would’ve been better for the author to act like a real expert, versus an excited teenager with an essay on why he believes we all live in a videogame.
Chapter 7 (or chapter 8 in the audible app) is the best , where he is talking about how the Simulation Hypothesis can be integrated to the laws of physics.
Chapter 5 and 6 and 9 he likes to muddy the argument by saying that the Vedics, and the Buddhists all were getting out of the simulation, and that the Angel Gabriel is really the record keeping algorithm. So a bunch of non provable arguments to support his non disprovable arguments, circular .
This book could've been better if he just stuck with computer science and the scientific consensus (Newtons physics, Quantum Physics, General Relativity) he never even mentioned that the scientists who use devices to measure the very large and very small may just be getting simulated result digits, because it is beyond human scale no need to actually simulate it, just the numbers on the measuring device.

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If you're having existentialism conflicts...

Revisado: 11-07-21

This will shake those thoughts out of your mind's It Actually a case against existentialism, if we look at it in retrospect what was actually going on in WW2. No individual's experience was more important than what populations were going through.

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