David Eagleman

So that's why I call myself a Possibilian.

So that's why I call myself a Possibilian.

So that's why I call myself a Possibilian.

How do you describe the book to people? I call it literary fiction. It's 40 short stories that are all mutually exclusive. They're all pretty funny, I would like to think, but they're also kind of gut-wrenching. And what I'm doing is shining the flashlight around the possibility space.

How do you describe the book to people? I call it literary fiction. It's 40 short stories that are all mutually exclusive. They're all pretty funny, I would like to think, but they're also kind of gut-wrenching. And what I'm doing is shining the flashlight around the possibility space.

How do you describe the book to people? I call it literary fiction. It's 40 short stories that are all mutually exclusive. They're all pretty funny, I would like to think, but they're also kind of gut-wrenching. And what I'm doing is shining the flashlight around the possibility space.

None of them are meant to be taken seriously, but what the exercise of having 40 completely different stories gives gives us is a sense of, wow, actually, there's a lot that we don't know here. In some of the stories, God is a female. In some stories, God is a married couple. In some stories, God is a species of dim-witted creatures.

None of them are meant to be taken seriously, but what the exercise of having 40 completely different stories gives gives us is a sense of, wow, actually, there's a lot that we don't know here. In some of the stories, God is a female. In some stories, God is a married couple. In some stories, God is a species of dim-witted creatures.

None of them are meant to be taken seriously, but what the exercise of having 40 completely different stories gives gives us is a sense of, wow, actually, there's a lot that we don't know here. In some of the stories, God is a female. In some stories, God is a married couple. In some stories, God is a species of dim-witted creatures.

In one story, God is actually the size of a bacterium and doesn't know that we exist. And in lots of stories, there's no God at all. That book is something I wrote over the course of seven years and became an international bestseller. It's really had a life to it that I wouldn't have ever guessed.

In one story, God is actually the size of a bacterium and doesn't know that we exist. And in lots of stories, there's no God at all. That book is something I wrote over the course of seven years and became an international bestseller. It's really had a life to it that I wouldn't have ever guessed.

In one story, God is actually the size of a bacterium and doesn't know that we exist. And in lots of stories, there's no God at all. That book is something I wrote over the course of seven years and became an international bestseller. It's really had a life to it that I wouldn't have ever guessed.

Some, actually, I chose because, among other things, that's the title story. In the afterlife, you relive your life, but all the moments that share a quality are grouped together. So you spend... three months waiting in line and you spend 900 hours sitting on the toilet and you spend 30 years sleeping. All in a row. Exactly.

Some, actually, I chose because, among other things, that's the title story. In the afterlife, you relive your life, but all the moments that share a quality are grouped together. So you spend... three months waiting in line and you spend 900 hours sitting on the toilet and you spend 30 years sleeping. All in a row. Exactly.

Some, actually, I chose because, among other things, that's the title story. In the afterlife, you relive your life, but all the moments that share a quality are grouped together. So you spend... three months waiting in line and you spend 900 hours sitting on the toilet and you spend 30 years sleeping. All in a row. Exactly.

And this amount of time looking for lost items and this amount of time realizing you've forgotten someone's name and this amount of time falling and so on. Part of why I used the title Sum is because of the sum of events in your life like that. Part of it was because Cochito Ergo Sum. So it ended up just being the perfect title for me, even if it did lose a couple of readers there. Yeah.

And this amount of time looking for lost items and this amount of time realizing you've forgotten someone's name and this amount of time falling and so on. Part of why I used the title Sum is because of the sum of events in your life like that. Part of it was because Cochito Ergo Sum. So it ended up just being the perfect title for me, even if it did lose a couple of readers there. Yeah.

And this amount of time looking for lost items and this amount of time realizing you've forgotten someone's name and this amount of time falling and so on. Part of why I used the title Sum is because of the sum of events in your life like that. Part of it was because Cochito Ergo Sum. So it ended up just being the perfect title for me, even if it did lose a couple of readers there. Yeah.

Essentially, these artificial neural networks took off from a very simplified version of the brain, which is, hey, look, you've got units and they're connected. And what if we can change the strength between these connections? And in a very short time, that has now become this thing that has read everything ever written on the planet and can give extraordinary answers.

Essentially, these artificial neural networks took off from a very simplified version of the brain, which is, hey, look, you've got units and they're connected. And what if we can change the strength between these connections? And in a very short time, that has now become this thing that has read everything ever written on the planet and can give extraordinary answers.