false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182471183m/1281550.jpg 156784 12 <P>The good news is that you have just awakened into Eternal Life. You are going to live forever. Immortality is a reality. A medical miracle? Not exactly.</P><P>The bad news is that you are a scrap of electronic code. The world you see around you, the <i>you</i> that is seeing it, has been digitized, scanned, and downloaded into a virtual reality program. You are a Copy that knows it is a copy.</P><P>The good news is that there is a way out. By law, every Copy has the option of terminating itself, and waking up to normal flesh-and-blood life again. The <i>bail-out</i> is on the <i>utilities</i> menu. You pull it down...</P><P>The bad news is that it doesn't work. Someone has blocked the bail-out option. And you know who did it. You did. The other you. The real you. The one that wants to keep you here forever. </P> 1270567 book 1994 Permutation City total:241|5:85|4:92|3:50|2:12|1:2| 241 969 430 25 5 2 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Fri May 18 07:00:14 -0700 2007 Fri May 18 07:41:46 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 2 false false Thu Nov 08 20:40:47 -0800 2007 Thu Nov 08 20:40:47 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jun 27 05:36:23 -0700 2007 Wed Jun 27 05:36:48 -0700 2007 simulations of humans onto a computer chip after they die.
The humans on the chip learn how to create artificial
life. And so on, in an ever-ascending chain of machines.
Prepare to have your mind blown.
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Wow. rarely did a book capture my interest so completely in the first chapters only to bore and annoy me so completely in the end.

The premise is great – imagine you are an AI -- a virtual copy sharing your "creator's" memories and ideas, fully ...more...]]> 5 0 false true Fri Nov 14 01:02:32 -0800 2008 Sun Oct 19 13:00:01 -0700 2008 Fri Nov 14 01:02:32 -0800 2008 Tellement longtemps, en fait, que je n'ai plus le texte de ce que j'avais pu en penser à l'époque.
Pas très grave, en fait, car mon opinion a beaucoup évolué sur le sujet.
Revenons en au début ...
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