This one was read for a book club. The little dilemmas and questions are good to talk over with people and so that’s fun. But the pontificating by the author wasn’t particularly necessary. I can pontificate very well in my own, thank you very much.

Most (all?) of the scenarios come from other works: Douglas Adams (title scenario), Zeno’s paradox, the trolley problem, etc. Lots of repeated themes.

The one most interesting to me to think about was #21, Land of the Epiphens. Do you think your thoughts or do they come to you? “Indeed, if you think about thinking, there does seem to be something almost involuntary about it. Solutions ‘come to us’, for example, not we to them.”