I travelled this weekend, which meant I got to start and finish Robert Sawyer’s The Terminal Experiment. In a fun combination of two technology sectors, the story follows the impact of EEGs taken at a nanoscale level and software constructs of human brains/personalities. Call it a mashup, even…with an evil genius AI committing real-world murder along the way.
Sawyer, I’ve learned over a few novels, like Factoring Humanity, likes to linger on the spiritual implications inherent in technological advances. The method? The super EEG finds the physical expression of the soul (!), dubbed the “soulwave.” Huh.
These books aren’t quite redundant, but the style and story feels consistent with the few Sawyer books I’ve read. Fortunately, that’s a good thing.