Understand
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3/5
First-person character becomes hyper-intelligent and begins to explore the gestalt of all fields, and masters the human body/ brain. Using financial and technological skills he eludes the CIA before encountering another super-intelligence.
It's an enjoyable listen and as always the BBC production values are high.
It's excellent that it's not abridged and you basically get the whole short story narrated.
The story starts and ends with dissolving, which is a nice call back loop.
Chiang likes the theme of language either defining our sense of reality, restricting or altering it and supercharging our expansion and evolution.
My only gripe is perhaps that Chiang overuses the word Gestalt.
But hey-ho, still good.