Friday, January 16, 2009

God's Debris by Scott Adams


What is this book? As in is it a collection of no- sense by any chance? cuz that's how it seemed to me, it made no sense to me :) According to the author, it is a thought experiment, which it might be because, its all experimental views i suppose. At times i was intrigued while reading, at times amused, at times it kinda bounced over my head & at times i just found it too ridiculous :) It seemed like author was playing with words.


In this 2 people are conversing about different topics [our free will, God's free will,science, religion, belief, reincarnation, light, luck, probability, evolution n what not ], About the different planes & levels of understanding.

This book kinda confuses you, as in you start thinking about the weird thoughts put forward by the author related to both science & religion & you go thinking about it &relating to your own previous beliefs/assumptions. it really gets hilarious/ridiculous at some point, i mean the extent of authors imagination/views or whatever it is that he has penned in this book. According to the books protagonist, the omnipotent God blew himself to bits [which we call the Big Bang], cuz the omniscient God knows everything except maybe what his lack of existence is like, so everything now is God's Debris which exists as matter & laws of probability, we are God's Debris & now it is trying to reassemble itself. So universe is nothing but dust & probability, Probability being omnipotent and omnipresent. Even will power is a delusion. Phew what was this. Maybe my plane on understanding is very much below that of plane required to understand this ;-)
So I think its a fine read as long as I dont delve on any no-sense for a long time ;-)But then you never know, what is truth. Isn't truth relative? :)

Some cool statements :

"Wat could stimulate the mind of someone who knows everything?"


“Are you saying you believe in God because there are no other explanations?”


"Your inability to see other possibilities and your lack of vocabulary are your brain’s limits, not the universe’s.”


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