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operations, to run historical simulations. The Astronomer Royal Martin Rees claims that mankind has a 50
chance of not being destroyed before the year 2100:
Our Final Century? Will the Human Race Survive the Twenty-First Century? (Heinemann, 2003).
For more information about Zhuangzi, see Angus C. Graham (tr.),
Chuang-tzu: The Seven Inner Chapters and Other Writings from the Book Chuang-tzu (Allen & Unwin, 1981). A translation of the butterfly dream story is on p. 61.
An analysis of the geometry underlying Escher’s print is provided in chapter 6 of Bruno Ernst’s
The Magic Mirror of M. C. Escher (Taschen, 2007).
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The Matrix
gave rise to a series of books on popular philosophy of variable quality. One of the better ones is William Irwin (ed.),
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