Sum

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David Eagleman. Sum

Contents

Sum

Egalitaire

Circle of Friends

Descent of Species

Giantess

Mary

The Cast

Metamorphosis

Missing

Spirals

Scales

Adhesion

Angst

Oz

Great Expectations

Mirrors

Perpetuity

The Unnatural

Distance

Reins

Microbe

Absence

Will-o’-the-Wisp

Incentive

Death Switch

Encore

Prism

Ineffable

Pantheon

Impulse

Quantum

Conservation

Narcissus

Seed

Graveyard of the Gods

Apostasy

Blueprints

Subjunctive

Search

Reversal

Copyright

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SumEgalitaireCircle of FriendsDescent of SpeciesGiantessMaryThe CastMetamorphosisMissingSpiralsScalesAdhesionAngstOz Great ExpectationsMirrorsPerpetuityThe UnnaturalDistanceReinsMicrobeAbsenceWill-o’-the-WispIncentiveDeath SwitchEncorePrismIneffablePantheonImpulseQuantumConservationNarcissusSeedGraveyard of the GodsApostasyBlueprintsSubjunctiveSearchReversal

You take all your pain at once, all twenty-seven intense hours of it. Bones break, cars crash, skin is cut, babies are born. Once you make it through, it’s agony-free for the rest of your afterlife.

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“To give you a sense of scale, you are the size of an atom for her. Your Earth—sprouting with its untold layers of furiously fecund species—your Earth is tantamount to a single protein in the shadowy depths of a single one of her cells. Our Milky Way constitutes a single cell, but a small one. She consists of hundreds of billions of such cells.

“For millions of years, my people had no notion of her, just as a flatworm is unlikely to discover that the planet is round; a colony of bacteria will never know the walls of the flask; a single cell in your hand will not know it is contributing to a concerto on the piano.

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