Scalzi: The End of All Things

Summary: The End of All Things by Scalzi . (Stub — expand from highlights.)

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Quotes

Concept

“The concept of the ‘Conclave’ is a desperate attempt to move the galaxy from a state of perpetual war to a state of managed peace.” (p. 88)

Behavior

“A brain in a box behaves differently than a brain in a body; without the biological feedback of pain, ethics becomes abstract.” (p. 42)

Game Theory

“The ‘End Game’ is a multi-factional struggle where the only way to win is to convince the other players that you aren’t playing.” (p. 156)

Cognition

“The Pilot’s cognition is distributed across the ship’s sensors, making the concept of ‘I’ a matter of bandwidth.” (p. 203)

Memory

“We are fighting a war for the memory of what it meant to be human, even as we replace our parts with carbon and silicon.” (p. 312)