God's Debris by Scott Adams

[Gray Fox]

Accidentally read the book today. It's freely available online
http://fringe.davesource.com/Fringe/Entertainment/Books/Scott_Adams.Gods_Debris.pdf

In any case it's a fun and easy to read book, I'm sure many of you
know about it seeing as Scott Adams wrote it.
So read it and lets discuss it here.

Here is a good description on wikipedia about it for the people
that haven't read it.

The central character, according to the introduction, knows
"everything. Literally everything." Adams, whose knowledge is as
incomplete as the next person, got around this by using the
aforementioned "simplest explanation" for each concept raised in
the book because, while "in this complicated world the simplest
explanation is usually dead wrong", a more simple explanation often
sounds more right and more convincing than anything complicated.

This character, the Avatar, defines God as primordial matter (like
quarks and leptons) and the law of probability. He offers
recommendations on everything from an alternative theory for
planetary motion to successful recipes for relationships under his
system. He proposes that God is currently reassembling himself
through the ongoing formation of a collective intelligence in the
form of the human race, modern examples of which include the
development of the Internet.

However, in the introduction, Adams describes God's Debris as a
thought experiment, challenging readers to differentiate its
scientifically accepted theories from "creative baloney designed to
sound true," and to "Try to figure out what's wrong with the
simplest explanation."[1]

 

[Yorick]

Read it. Loved it. I haven't gotten around to reading the sequel yet though.

 

[dfc05]

A friend sent it to me a couple of years ago. It's a good read.

 

[Hazar]

not sure if I can handle reading over a hundred pages on my computer.

I'll try to get around to it sometime