The God Problem
I have just started reading Howard Bloom's The God Problem: How a Godless Universe Creates. I've only read two chapters into it, but I feel I can heartily recommend the book already. Bloom is a very...
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OK, got 5 minutes? Take a look at this YouTube video, as Howard Bloom explains his new model of how the universe begins and will end. Or will it? Tune in and be prepared to be introduced to the Big...
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I have pretty much finished Howard Bloom's tour de force now. It is one of the most impressive books I've ever read. This guy went from being a publicist for such superstars as Michael Jackson, Cyndi...
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I don't think anyone could call cellular automaton theory a "new idea" anymore, but it does provide a very neat illustration of how a seemingly ordered complexity can arise from a set of rules...
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Cellular automata were really invented in the 1940s, but they didn't become a phenomenon until computers made it possible to visualize the results of massive amounts of iteration. So they began to...
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Okay, I just put a hold on this book at the library. Anyone looking for a definitive review by a recognized genius will just have to wait until I finish reading it.
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I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. He does get into string & brane theory in the end, after which he enumerates all of the unanswered questions he has. I also learned that he does have some...
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I picked up the book yesterday, Cop, and propelled by my promise, I'm 100 pages into it. I sure hope it gets better. I gave a deposition once in a contract dispute, and afterwards, two of the...
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OK, you are clearly having a totally different reaction from the one I had. He's is a shameless self-promoter. I said that from the beginning. Have you gotten to Pythagoras yet? It really got...
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Yes, I read about Pythagoras. Honestly, though, I could have done with less deep background and more on the subject of the book. The biographical details didn't add anything, and the philosophical...
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That's fine with me. I've discussed the book with others in my book group who have read it, and the reviews are not as mixed. A lot of people found it a fun, wild ride, just as I did, but these people...
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So why was "negentropy" to be expected in a universe where the Second Law prevailed? Could be gravity. That is a fairly good sorting agent (light things on top, heavy things on the bottom, instead of...
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'Entropy' was first, and still primarily, a concept in thermodynamics. While it has been common (and useful) to demonstrate the idea with visually striking examples such as dissolving sugar cubes, and...
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From what I've seen, people either hate or love this book. About a quarter of the reviews I read are similar to yours, and, not surprisingly, most of the complainers said that they hated the...
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Okay. As you said, Cop, Bloom simply asks a lot of questions in his final subchapter and delivers no answers. (Out of the first 40 sentences {separated into several paragraphs for no discernable...
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I rather like Dennett. Unlike Bloom, he is accomplished in his field (philosophy) and comes up with useful ways to think about things. Consciousness Explained, while it didn't fulfill the title's...
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What Bloom actually said was that he dreamed up the Big Bagel Theory at the end of the 1950s, when he was really still just a kid and that he considered it a "comic book" theory for most of his life....
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