“It is only through us that God lives. When we abandon him, he dies.”
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At once funny, wistful and unsettling, Sum is a dazzling exploration of unexpected afterlives—each presented as a vignette that offers a stunning lens through which to see ourselves in the here and now. In one afterlife, you may find that God is the size of a microbe and unaware of your existence. In another version, you work as a background character in other people’s dreams. Or you may find that God is a married couple, or that the universe is running backward, or that you are forced to live out your afterlife with annoying versions of who you could have been. With a probing imagination and deep understanding of the human condition, acclaimed neuroscientist David Eagleman offers wonderfully imagined tales that shine a brilliant light on the here and now.
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“It is only through us that God lives. When we abandon him, he dies.”
“Although we credit God with designing man, it turns out He's not sufficiently skilled to have done so. In point of fact, He unintentionally knocked over the first domino by creating a palett...”
“All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.”
“Since we live in the heads of those who remember us, we lose control of our lives and become who they want us to be.”
“God realized that He had no concept of the skills required to run an organization of this magnitude.”
“Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones who can empathize with their problems.”
“There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name...”