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Butterflies Are Free To Fly (2000)

by Stephen Davis(Favorite Author)

3.5 of 5 Votes: 2

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review 1: I absolutely HATED this book. I finished the book, only because I really wanted to know if there were any intelligent points in the second half: there weren't. The second half of the book was, for me, absolute torture. I read it fast. Every chapter in the second half was worse than the previous one. I actually liked the first part of the book, in which the author discusses a lot of science that I know and appreciate - science that offers clues to a counter-intuitive reality - but, unfortunately, the author's conclusions from the science are absolute tripe. Here is my summary of the author's conclusions about reality: we all have a personal deity who is real, but nothing in our universe is real - it's all just a big video game for our personal deity, who is bored from being... more so perfect. If you have a "personal jesus," or wish you did, this book might speak to you. For me, a spiritually-enlightened realist, critical thinker, scientific skeptic, atheist-Buddhist, the concept of a personal deity and the concept that our universe is not real is not only intolerable but absolutely ignorant. David Deutsche's "The Fabric of Reality," offers a well-argued criticism of the philosophy of solipsism that "Butterflies Are Free To Fly" espouses; (even though Mr. Davis explicitly refuses to acknowledge that his worldview is solipsism.)
review 2: I'm half way through and I can't read this anymore. I don't want to waste my time reading this. What I've read so far, I think it is complete and utter non-sense. The author would have you believe that I can't read anymore because he is challenging by beliefs and I am unable to deal with it and/or my ego is standing in the way and preventing me from receiving the information. No. That isn't it. I'm not receiving it because I think his theory which he states as fact is completely and utterly false. I don't even want to take the time to list the falsehoods up to the point that I have read, and therefore I can't continue. It's books like this that make me want to write my own book on theories of life and existence. I'm not going to write anymore, because the way the book was written there is a reason and why for everything that I just wrote and how it can be explained away. I can't win. But then the point isn't to win. It is to experience. True. In that you are correct. I did forget. There was one interesting bit of a study that showed the brain actually makes decisions before we consciously are aware of them. That is significant and puts a new spin on things. Too bad the other is just full of too many falsehoods to even tolerate it. less

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