Re: what it's like to be uploaded

From: hal@finney.org
Date: Wed Feb 23 2000 - 21:51:57 MST

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A good technical book expanding on the idea of a two dimensional universe
is Planiverse by A. K. Dewdney. He has all these technical details
about how things could work in a two dimensional world - machines,
organisms, societies. It's a lot of fun as a technical extrapolation
(intrapolation?).

Hal

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