Reminds me of this short story: The Egg by: Andy Weir
http://galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html
Instead of electrons, everyone in the universe is the same person.
Instead of electrons, everyone in the universe is the same person.
Isn't there another one like this involving a wizard who rules in a castle?
I love so much the effortlessness of steeping in a culture of people with such similar tastes and preferences enabled by the internet (and, to a lesser extent, HN).
(a culture of people with such similar tastes and preferences) enabled by the internet
not
a culture of people with (such similar tastes and preferences enabled by the internet)
I'd like to know what people think, since I haven't shown it to anyone before. I don't write fiction often and was experimenting with the writing style, and I'm not sure if it's too over-written.
Keep it up! I love fiction like this that tries to tackle deep topics.
psychological results being misused to say "Be glad it got spoiled, now you'll like it!" irritates and offends me.
As a personal rule, I don't spoil events (books, movies, etc.) when friends ask.
Researchers have pursued similar goals for image/video databases for more than a decade now, with little success (think how you search YouTube or Flickr: mainly through manual tags). Any that is a much simpler problem.
No.
I'm thinking of a short story I read long ago, about a man who invents a device which can be used to view the past, despite mysterious attempts to sabotage his work.
As I recall, it does not end well.
The Boltzmann brain paradox is that it is more likely that a brain randomly forms out of the chaos with false memories of its life than that the universe around us would have billions of self-aware brains.
What interests me about this is that a physicist is capable of such complex ruminations vis-a-vis self-awareness without indicating the slightest apprehension of self-replication.
That was the theme of Richard Bach's One: A Novel as well.