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Shouldn't be listed under "quantum theory"
This is a fun book, in a way, but it isn't science. I bought it expecting a serious layman's exploration of the multiverse hypothesis in modern physics. (My fault for not reading the write-up more thoroughly.) Instead, this is written from the perspective of a video-game creator and enthusiast, asking "What if everything we experience is the inside of some vast simulation - - a la "The Matrix"? The author then delves into all the mysteries of human experience and tests them against that idea. It's fun .. . a little like a punk "Gödel Escher, Bach" . . . but it isn't physics by a long shot. The promotion of the author as a "MIT Computer Scientist" is very misleading. He is a video game entrepreneur with an undergraduate degree from MIT in Computer Science. The book is self-published, and the author's other books, also self-published are about entrepreneurship, secret of business success, etc, not science. Amazon really should be more careful about supporting the author's marketing pose that this is some kind of real science.
April 2019 · Books · verified purchase
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