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It does actually, and I really like this explanation: So, imagine you model a human mind. Now you can slow this model down, speed it up, the human mind does not know. In the novel states of the mind in time are computed, out of order, while watching reality, the mind observes it is time scambled but the mind itself does not notice. On the basis Egan concludes that the pattern that forms the mind may well be present in the universe somewhere, and the next time pattern, one time instance further may be somewhere completely different. But the mind does not notice. So the mind can just exist without it's physical basis being anywhere specifically... It get's one thinking.

Honestly as the other response says, indeed there is a parallel universe part to it.. For which I didn't really understand it relation to "dust".

I also liked "Quarantine" which made Quantum Mechanics somehow more intuitive to me. Truly a great writer.

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> Honestly as the other response says, indeed there is a parallel universe part to it.. For which I didn't really understand it relation to "dust".

The other universes count as part of the "dust".

The characters in the book thought it would be only random 'simulations' that accidentally happen sometime in the universe's infinite future that kept running them -- that is, literal dust.

They were wrong. Simulations in entirely disjoint universes also count, and aren't nearly as predictable.