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Get a backbone mods.. trust your own judgments.
Read this a few months ago
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Baxter draws upon the work in recent decades on self emergent order, that arises from simple rules between cellular automata. See for example seminal work by Wolfram in the early 80s. The gist of these is that very rudimentary rules for short range interactions between these automata can give rise to ordered phenomena over larger distances and times. This book posits such an ordering over some 1600 years, from the fall of the Roman Empire to the present time.
Baxter also seems to implicitly use work by Richard Dawkins, in "The Selfish Gene", where Dawkins argues that organisms are just the vessels by which their genes propagate in time. For the most part, this refers to nonsentient creatures. But the most provocative implication of Dawkins' work is that we too are bound by such imperatives. The plot in this book also seems to follow this thread.
Somewhat enjoyable. Though the subplot of possible aliens in outer space seems to be quite jarring, and not well fitting, as compared to the way Baxter interleaves two narrative flows, from the present and the past.
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James Joyce is a known troll. He copied it from me. Look at his homepage URL - nero-online.org. Don't click it though.
This is really getting out of hand. When will the moderators realize that the trolls are now influencing moderators to mod down posts by simply saying "oh, this has been copied from the Anti-Slash DB tool"?
Get a backbone mods.. trust your own judgments.
Baxter draws upon the work in recent decades on self emergent order, that arises from simple rules between cellular automata. See for example seminal work by Wolfram in the early 80s. The gist of these is that very rudimentary rules for short range interactions between these automata can give rise to ordered phenomena over larger distances and times. This book posits such an ordering over some 1600 years, from the fall of the Roman Empire to the present time.
Baxter also seems to implicitly use work by Richard Dawkins, in "The Selfish Gene", where Dawkins argues that organisms are just the vessels by which their genes propagate in time. For the most part, this refers to nonsentient creatures. But the most provocative implication of Dawkins' work is that we too are bound by such imperatives. The plot in this book also seems to follow this thread.
Somewhat enjoyable. Though the subplot of possible aliens in outer space seems to be quite jarring, and not well fitting, as compared to the way Baxter interleaves two narrative flows, from the present and the past.