Stephenson – Fall; or, Dodge in Hell

Book page: stephenson-fall-dodge-hell

From: Quotes batch 24

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Concept

“The Bitworld is the conceptual realization of a digital afterlife, where the soul is reduced to a persistent state of data.” (p. 156)

Behavior

“Freed from biological constraints, the digital ‘souls’ behave according to the narrative tropes of the myths they remember.” (p. 312)

Game Theory

“The creation of a new world is the ultimate sandbox game, where the rules of physics are written by those with the most processing power.” (p. 450)

Cognition

“Dodge’s cognition had to be bootstrapped from raw binary, a process of rebuilding consciousness from the bottom up.” (p. 210)

Memory

“In the afterlife, your memory is your landscape; the world you inhabit is built from the things you can’t forget.” (p. 88)