Psychological continuity & the plot bunny

[butterflydreaming]

My brother is reading a Sam Harris book. I always want to have more basis for discussion with my fam, and the library had a ready copy, so I've been doing a read along. It's crap: rude, (unintentionally) racist, tripe for chapter 1, dumbed down blathering about consciosness for 2, but 3, about the illusion of self, is plot bunny food. (He's also more tolerable when he sticks to neuroscience.)

They've come a-hoppin'.

Following after fodder in chapter 2 regarding the two hemisphere's of the human brain, which got me thinking about disassociative disorders, the mental wanderings from the path of chapter 3 include a revelation about one of the clone universe related stories (a villainous perversion of the AGC's purpose) as well as more thoughts about the time-travel-in-your-own-body idea.

I can't do anything with these bunnies at the moment. Nevertheless, it's good to know I'm getting something out of the Harris book. Stay in the kitchen and make sandwiches for my bunnies, Sam!

Comments

[t_hale_capital]

I was wondering what the title of the book was?

[butterflydreaming]

It's Waking Up: A guide to spirituality without religion. The rest of chapter 3 was putting me to sleep in a coffee shop (in fact), so I'm going to keep skipping ahead. I may look for some books on neurology that don't have so much of an agenda.

I'm now thinking that I want to try changing the genre of the clone stories to fantasy, and make the clones homunculi or golems instead. It shifts things just a little in interesting ways.

[t_hale_capital]

Hmm, neurology books, that sounds interesting. Let me know what you find!

Is this the story where the girl is dreaming somebody else's dreams? I could be mis-remembering this badly... but I remember it was cool.

[butterflydreaming]

That's the one, or one of them. "Stars Fading" The funny thing is, now I've gone back to SF as the genre, because trying the concept out as fantasy helped me see why I wanted it to be SF to begin with.