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Nature 441, 409 (25 May 2006) | doi:10.1038/441409b; Published online 24 May 2006
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Life, the Universe and entropy
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BOOK REVIEWED-Decoding the Universe: How the New Science of Information is Explaining Everything in the Cosmos, From our Brains to Black Holes
by Charles Seife
Viking: 2006. 288 pp. $24.95
Near the end of his new book Decoding the Universe, Charles Seife argues with a straight face that there exists a universe parallel to ours that is populated by a race of superintelligent octopuses. The funny thing is, I believed him.
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