Dirtside's Journal: Diaspora

I just finished Greg Egan's novel Diaspora. It spent a lot of time dwelling on the nature of consciousness, intelligence, and the self. I keep trying to write something insightful about it, but I can't. Not yet. All I can recommend is that you go get this book and read it. There's a lot of heavy science in it -- everything from quantum mechanics to molecular biology to astrophysics -- but it's intensely fascinating.