More Words, Deeper Hole

Mmmph. Checking my copy(assuming we are talking about the same book), the material you are objecting to runs from page five to at most page twenty-seven. More probably, from page five, to pages ten to fourteen. That's not fifty+ pages, your original claim. It's more like six to ten pages.

The point of this discourse, imho, was to show how certain processes such life, consciousness, etc, all share the same type of form, and that form happens to be ubiquitous in nature. Which was reflected in the programming language and the birth of the protagonist.

You missed a few funny bits, btw. Did you get to the part where Inoshiro is scared to death of an empty can of Coke, with it's potential for 'meme parasitation'? To the point where he's going to melt it down?