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God's Debris: A Thought Experiment Paperback – September 7, 2004

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Explore the mysteries and magic of the cosmos with the acclaimed creator of Dilbert.

God's Debris is the first non-Dilbert, non-humor book by best-selling author Scott Adams. Adams describes God's Debris as a thought experiment wrapped in a story. It's designed to make your brain spin around inside your skull.

Imagine thatÂ you meet a very old man whoâ€”you eventually realizeâ€”knows literally everything. Imagine that he explains for you the great mysteries of life: quantum physics, evolution, God, gravity, light psychic phenomenon, and probabilityâ€”in a way so simple, so novel, and so compelling that it all fits together and makes perfect sense. What does it feel like to suddenly understand everything?

You may not find the final answer to the big question, but God's Debris might provide the most compelling vision of reality you will ever read. The thought experiment is this: Try to figure out what's wrong with the old man's explanation of reality. Share the book with your smart friends, then discuss it later while enjoying a beverage.

It has no violence or sex, but the ideas are powerful and not appropriate for readers under fourteen.

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144 pages
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English
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Andrews McMeel Publishing
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September 7, 2004
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5 x 0.5 x 7 inches
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0740747878
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978-0740747878
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What started as a doodle has turned Scott Adams into a superstar of the cartoon world. Dilbert debuted on the comics page in 1989, while Adams was in the tech department at Pacific Bell. Adams continued to work at Pacific Bell until he was voluntarily downsized in 1995. He has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1979.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Andrews McMeel Publishing (September 7, 2004)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 144 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0740747878
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0740747878
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 4.8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 0.5 x 7 inches

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Scott Adams is the creator of the Dilbert comic strip that is published daily in thousands of newspapers and websites all over the world. Adams also authored several non-Dilbert books as well. He is co-founder of Whenhub.
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focusedlife

Will Make Your Mind Melt - So Good

Reviewed in the United States on November 2, 2023

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I've read the book twice, once in 2017 then again just the last 2 days... F*... it's so good. It puts into story form what I think Scott now offers in his other works in more teaching form. Stuff like Reframe your brain, but Geezus... such a good read. I did not know he had a sequel to it. Whatever the case, get this book.

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Ned

A Feast To Be Enjoyed More Than Once

Reviewed in the United States on October 7, 2016

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Go ahead and read it in one sitting. The book is less than 150 pages - you can munch right through it in a few hours.

What this appears to be is a compendium of all the ideas in physics which compose our current cosmology. The latter has always and forever been driven by the former, right back to Aristotle.

In the first metabolizing of his ideas, the notion of what God's debris *is* will no doubt be the idea that most stays with you. That's a good thing, and a subject worth some investment.

In subsequent readings, pick another theme - any subject he covers, say string theory - and follow that thread. Maybe even do some ancillary reading in that area. Then find another subject - perhaps probability - and follow that path for awhile.

This book could be subtitled "God's Debris: A Short Course on How to Become a Metaphysician".

Most enjoyable, Mr. Adams. You are a man of many parts. I'd like to read the sequel, but it will have to wait until I can afford it. Meanwhile, you've given me lots to play with.

My question to fellow reviewers: do you agree with Mr Adams that we can all be divided neatly into one of two categories? He says there are "idea people" and "people people" (a paraphrase). The former get their energy from 'alone time' where they can think about ideas and recharge, while the second group draws energy from encounters with others, encounters where they talk about people rather than ideas. Drawing on my own experience it would appear that this is another way of saying there are introverts and extroverts. But - also in my experience - few of us are purely one or the other. Thus, while there are many ideas worth pondering, all gathered up into the pages of Mr. Adams' book, I will enjoy talking to others about those ideas. And both endeavors provide lots of sizzle.

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RCBLAKE

Interesting read for the newly curious

Reviewed in the United States on September 1, 2014

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Curiosity about what THIS is all about did not strike me until I reached my 40's and at that time it was just a general, fleeting discomfort with what I thought I knew to be true. It wasn't until we lost our oldest daughter to suicide in 2012 that I began my journey in earnest and out of necessity to remain sane for the rest of our adult children. I made it my occupation to learn as much as I could about the nature of reality, life and death.
In the intervening two years, I've read countless books of this nature so the 'shocking' premise of God's Debris was not shocking in the least for me. However, I do believe it has great merit for those people who're just beginning their own journey of discovery. This book is a great point at which to jump off the God Wagon that we've all been so conditioned to accept as the only ride in town. It attempts to wake awaken the consciousness by illustrating the weirdness surrounding scientific declarations proposed as truth and that is a great thing.
I don't feel that this is a great fit for anyone who is very well-read on these topics and has been exposed to an abundance of progressive lines of thought regarding the nature of God. I found it well-written and enjoyable albeit very elementary compared to much of what I find myself reading nowadays.

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Skullleader

Intellectually Stimulating

Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2020

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It’s rare that’s you get as book that makes you think. What’s even worse is the lack of philosophical thinking in out society. As I grew up in high school, a long time ago, people used to say the biggest topics to avoid are politics and religion. This was to me the biggest paradox as in a free society with the first amendment we are one of the few societies that has the ability to openly discuss politics and religion. You certainly as not doing that in Communist China or the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Even now I feel that the ability to have a intellectual conversation is gone. People are quick to devolve into emotion and insults rather than analyze the arguments or the facts. The news media has gone from reporting to news to using the news to support the agenda of its viewers. After all that’s what keep the viewers coming and getting the advertising dollars.

But true intellectual / philosophical conversation is rare. The beauty of this book is as you read it you can being to feel the energy in your brain start to either agree or disagree. Some of the things I immediately agreed with and said that makes total sense. Some things I did not know how to truly analyze, such as the speed of light or 99% of the speed of light. But it made me want to know more. If you want a short read that makes you want to think and want to engage this is it.

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Rob

This is a great book

Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2023

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I real enjoyed this book. It put an Interesting twist on how our world works. I going to reread the book to absorb the content

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BillK

Food for Thought

Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2014

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This book gave some food for thought, but the ideas are not nearly as profound as one might be led to believe. The book did NOT make my "brain spin around inside my skull" as was arrogantly promised.

I was rather put off right in the beginning when the author warned that some of the explanations were true but some were not, and it was up to the reader to figure out which was which. A cartoonist's cop-out for sloppy research, in my opinion. I felt a number of the discussions were poor, the primary example being the area of man's free will and God's free will. And a number were just silly, like "did you deliver the package or did it deliver you?".

But it's a short book and a quick read, and there ARE some ideas worth considering. So I think it's worthwhile on that basis and I would recommend it. For my part, I will continue enjoying Dilbert every day (I wouldn't miss that comic!), but I probably won't be reading another Scott Adams book.

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Awareness.

Reviewed in India on June 18, 2020

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This book will blow your mind over a hundred times and give you answers that'll give you more questions but will still, satisfy you to an extent. It won't make you intelligent, it will make you aware.

Pietro M.

Superb, as every Scott's writings

Reviewed in Italy on May 19, 2019

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I liked the practical take on knowledge we have about the world and humans, the illustrations through examples, the characters drawn. Would recommend it to anyone who's skeptical and wants to realise the need to move one level up.

sol42

My favorite book to lend out

Reviewed in Canada on May 6, 2017

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I absolutely love this book, and always have fun discussing it with others who have read it. My last copy got lost after lending it out, and this one probably will, too. Will buy again.

Diogo LP

I expected much more because...

Reviewed in Spain on August 30, 2017

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I really liked the Scott Adams autobiography "How to fail at almost everything and still win big" and I had great hopes for this one. But quite frankly it is just like a collection of random thoughts posed as very wise or insightfull but that are not that much. In my humble opinion there are much better books out there to read.

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O'Brien Room 101

Something

Reviewed in Australia on November 17, 2017

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I'm not sure what this is. But it sure is something.
Comforting and disturbing, this book certainly contains information. Thanks Scott.

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