Weird Studies/PKD
16 Jul 2022 - 30 Sep 2025
- Listened for completeness sake, I already know the work of Philip K Dick inside out.
- Quoting the end of The Tempest and asserting the world is made of stories (see A consumer's guide to the foundations of reality )
- What is the relationship between an author and their characters (I know there are a bunch of examples of texts that play with this but I can't think of them right now).
- Nick Bostrom! World are colliding. We are living in a simulation. Credits Lionel Snell with inventing this in the 70s. Hm, I wonder where the idea surfaces in cs/tech world...
- Digital physics - Wikipedia
The hypothesis that the universe is a digital computer was proposed by Konrad Zuse in his 1969 book Rechnender Raum
- Free will, oy vey.
- Takes a swipe at Dennett's Consciousness Explained.
- Discussion of the nihilism inherent in multi-world cosmologies, references Borges as one might expect.