The Fifth Science

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That he included a 'Why stuff got written' section at the end. I really love when creators do this, and on this instance specially it was lovely to learn about how Exurb1a came up with such mindboggling story prompts. I love Exurb1a's YouTube channel and think his humour is one of the best I've witnessed in my life. Therefore I enjoyed his style of writing. However his unique style from his YouTube videos sometimes shone through too much, in the way he phrases things a bit unnatural to literature. Such an unexpectedly fascinating read; Exurb1a never ceases to impress. Some of the stories were frankly phenomenal, like And the Leaves All Sing of God, Water for Lunch, Be Awake, Be Good, and The Caretaker, while others barely made the cut. Overall though, it was a pretty decent read. I'm still trying to get my head around the idea of conscious stars lining up to build some sort of a galactic machine :'D Consciousness, particularly artificial consciousness, acts as the focal point for these stories. While reading this book, perhaps by complete happenstance, I was introduced to machine learning as an academic pursuit.

For Every Dove a Bullet (First Story) -Very unique and interesting. An undefined being who travels through time and takes possession of a person/entity. This undefined being doesn't even know who or what he is either. And he meets another. Great concept, but for me, it ended flat.She shrugged. “Who cares? All you need is an enemy to take the punches at. Cut the world into us and them, manufacture dichotomies, boil complex issues down to sound bites. Divide and conquer.” The Menagerie was too much gore for my taste. I am sure that there are worse fates than death out there. These kinds of books and sufficient imagination will leave anyone convinced of this fact. God, he thought. What’s better, nothing for lunch, or water? At least with nothing you know you’re starving. They give you water though and what’s Every day I woke to the sun and stared at it a while, tried to see some meaning in the thing, spy an intention or a smile. I know that it is alive in some sense, whatever that sense might be. I know that it knows things. I think that it thinks. Anyway coming to the book itself, Exurb1a manages to create a most fabulous world. There are some true gems in there,

Inaction is the primary refuge of those who prefer their own constructed realities to the beautiful chaos of the real world Yes there are individual lives, yes there are individual syndicates and empires, but the whole process ultimately builds to the same climax in all iterations. That is, the consolidation of intelligence, the gathering of the wool of perfect wisdom, and the death of want. An absolute masterpiece. This had two remarkable ideas that I would like to highlight, one was about narrative collapse that I feel is surely approaching in our world as we lose trust in authority and institutions. With deepfakes and a variety of plausible explanations for any hypothesis. We can be forced to live without belief in anything concrete.We're all in the same strange boat, grappling with the same strange condition. But it isn't quite so scary if we all do it together. So let's do it together.” With a little bit of gentle influence from myself, he took to work on a new metaphysic, Mentalic Ontology. In even asking a question one affects the world. The safest course is to ask no questions that must not be asked and change nothing that does not have to be changed. The true lifeforce is inaction. The true deathforce is the will to conquer. The world is the explanation.