"This extremely interesting product is an entirely new type of
CD
one of the most intelligent and thought provoking I've encountered."
"...a better vehicle, I would suggest, than the gaudy rubbish favoured
to date by the heavyweight developers."
"...a lesson to all the CD-ROM producers out there."
"...anyone who wants to get involved in the multimedia revolution
can look to it for inspiration."
"...'click' went the light bulb in my head, because this is what this programme is all about: bridging the world of concept and theory and real life."
"At a time of interactive films and risk-defying multimedia applications,
we have received from the U.K. an unusual product which we bring to your
attention"
"...we would like to recommend the reading of this CD-ROM to those
about to enter the realms of creating a CD-ROM (whichever subject they
choose)"
"HOW GOD MAKES GOD is a charming CD-Book, offering education, entertaining
and sometimes mind bending experiments of thoughts."
"By using speech bubbles, cartoon illustrations, and interactive experiments
for thoughts and theories, the reader can learn in a clear and easy way."
"The work displays a certain literary quality: the logical sequence
and elegance of the graphics; the wit in the contrast between the content
and the presentation; and especially the interspersed computer simulations,
which impress with their imprint of atmosphere and mood"
"...in summary, "How God Makes God" provides in a most significant
way a foundation for modern science."
"especially praiseworthy is the use of the computer as a medium of
simulation."
"But by God it does make you think"
"If you like having your brain stretched you can't do better".
"...intriguing and seductive"
"a fascinating insight into the relationship between probability and
actuality".
"What's this? A CD-ROM for Apple Macs with no sound and only black
and white images? Yet where else can you play roulette, toss coins, devise
optimum strategies, or, just sit back and follow playful dialogues about
everything from the nature of money to religion, infidelity, genetics,
games theory and happiness.
"How God Makes God" is a stunningly different electronic comicbook.
Your guides are three young art-nouveau type women (all the images are
culled from 19th-century literature), and there's a sense of deja vu if
you're a fan of Douglas Hofstadter's Metamagical Themas and Godel Esher
Bach. It's similar territory, a fascinating and fertile space where maths,
science, games and culture collide. Funny, stylish moody and brainstretching
- author/designer Peter Small has created one of the most unusual interactive
experiences of the year."
"How God made God is one of the most interesting CD-ROMs I've seen.
Using old Victorian woodcuts, British author Peter Small ties together
probability, game theory, economics, genetic algorithms, and selfish gene
theory into an entertaining story that illustrates his version of the evolutionary
processes that have formed the human mind.
Small claims that our "genes evolved to favor emotions which make
us want to act in wayswhich maximize our chances of cooperating with each
other." The many experiments and simulations in the program [you get
to play dice and roulette, kill cats and hang people] provide first-hand
experience of the mathematical concepts presented in the work."
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