From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Mon Sep 01 2003 - 02:56:28 MDT
Cute, but it has the standard Creator problem. How was the Creator created?
From what process did the original first SuperIntelligence spring? Unless
somehow the snake does indeed swallow its own tail, there must have been one
universe that was not created by some SI.
- samantha
On Sunday 31 August 2003 22:57, Spudboy100@aol.com wrote:
> This book looks interesting and I am wondering if somebody has already read
> it in hardcover?
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> Book Review listed Amazon.com
> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1930722222/ref=br_books_nn/002-86244
>83- 2171238
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> Editorial Reviews
> From Publishers Weekly
> Science has yet to find a way of knowing what, if anything, existed before
> the Big Bang that created our universe. Further, how can we account for
> physical laws that are so finely tuned for the creation of carbon-based
> life? Science writer and amateur cosmologist Gardner proposes a startling
> theory: that a pre-existing superintelligent race that inhabited a "mother
> universe" created this one and tweaked the physical laws in its baby
> universe to ensure the continuity of intelligent life and of the cosmos
> itself; this universe, then, will foster the growth of a new
> superintelligence eons from now with complete command over the laws of
> nature and the ability to create yet more universes with inheritable
> characteristics. Thus, Gardner argues, our universe is a "Selfish Biocosm"
> that created intelligent life to ensure its own survival. Gardner marshals
> cutting-edge thinking in cosmology, string theory and the associated M
> theory, and complexity theory to support his ideas. Readers may want to
> jump to chapter 15 for a full statement of his theory, since the pr‚cis in
> his introduction is vague; still, this is not for casual readers of popular
> science. If one doesn't favor an explanation for the creation of life that
> involves a deity of some sort, then Gardner's theory seems a plausible
> alternative, though some readers may feel that speculating on
> superintelligences in pre-existing universes may be akin to Darwin's
> proverbial dog speculating on the mind of Newton. 8-page color insert not
> seen by PW. >>
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> Paperback: 344 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.74 x 8.96 x 7.08
> Publisher: Inner Ocean Publishing; (September 2003)
> ISBN: 1930722222 >>
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