I get a lot of press releases, but I have enjoyed few more than one I recently got from a book review website called Summary Guru , which site carries the headline 'GET INSPIRATION FOR YOUR PAPER WITH AI POWERED BOOK SUMMARIES & ANALYSIS – PLAGIARISM FREE' (Does inspiration need to be plagiarism free? Or just stuff you copy and paste?) To demonstrate the effectiveness of Summary Guru, the release tells us 'Before Watching Netflix's One Day , Know These Five Fascinating Details From The Book' - details produced by Summary Guru. Here they are, with a few of my comments: 1. It's about a single day... across twenty years To be honest, if you don't know this before watching the series, you haven't being paying attention. 2. It deeply explores relationships This is illustrated with 'To quote Emma (the novel’s main female character): “Dexter, I love you so much…and I probably always will. I just don't like you anymore. I'm sorry.”' Yep, deep
I've recently been reading The Blind Spot , which describes how science tends to confuse its idealised and simplified models with reality, and how scientists have traditionally relied too much on reductionism while putting anything that involves human experience into the 'unreliable and subjective' box, even though everything we do in the sciences (as opposed to mathematics) requires the input of human experience. One of the subjects covered at length in the book is time. This is fascinating in the context, because time is the experiential phenomenon that is regarded most differently in physics than it is in reality. Some physicists go as far to say that time doesn't exist at all. Related to this, it is pointed out that many physical processes are reversible in time, where science does not care which way it goes. But in the The Blind Spot the authors emphasise that what we experience is not clock time - the only time that physics regards as real - but duration. Physic