Stories of Your Life, and Others
I’ve just completed reading the Ted Chiang book, ‘Stories of Your Life and Others’. Wow! A very enjoyable, thought provoking read (thanks for the recommendation, Colin).
This is Sci-Fi with a spiritual (and sometimes, religious) content. Chiang delves into the human kit and pulls frantically at constants and perceptions. From re-telling of an Old Testamant tale, the edge of an industrial revolution using gola, to a documentary script detailing the arguments for and against automatically controlling perceptions to negate discrimination.
Definately one to get if you fancy a little after-reading thought.
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I’ve just finished the ironing (re-)watching a DVD: ‘What the bleep do we know?’. This somehow resonated with your post, but is more quantum theory and chaos mechanics mixed with that spiritual (and sometimes religious) content. Central theme is that we are brains in boxes, and can either be quiescent or proactive in ‘thinking’ our reality. Sounds naff but has an awful lot of good stuff in it. IMO.
Definitely one to get if you fancy ironing… ;)
Hey bish-mish, is this the DVD you’re referring too?
Whilst we’re discussing films, I saw An Inconvenient Truth last night, and I must admit. I expected more, but it’s probably been dumbed down to appeal to a wide range of viewers. Al Gore does state that he’s delivered the presentation over a thousand times, each time reviewing it… I guess those reviews have dropped the bar to the slowest person in the audience.
I’m currently half-way through Discovery Channel’s Global Warming: What you Need to Know. I’m finding it a little bit more analytical that Gore’s film, and graphically, far more inspiring.