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One problem I have is section of this one book (accelerando license says I can repost its contents)

looks like this

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Take a brain and put it in a bottle. Better: take a map of the brain and put

it in a map of a bottle -- or of a body -- and feed signals to it that mimic

its neurological inputs. Read its outputs and route them to a model body

in a model universe with a model of physical laws, closing the loop. René

Descartes would understand. That's the state of the passengers of the

Field Circus in a nutshell. Formerly physical humans, their neural

software (and a map of the intracranial wetware it runs on) has been

transferred into a virtual machine environment executing on a honking

great computer, where the universe they experience is merely a dream

within a dream

Brains in bottles -- empowered ones, with total, dictatorial, control over

the reality they are exposed to -- sometimes stop engaging in activities

that brains in bodies can't avoid. Menstruation isn't mandatory. Vomiting,

angina, exhaustion, and cramp are all optional. So is meatdeath, the

decomposition of the corpus. But some activities don't cease, because

people (even people who have been converted into a software

description, squirted through a high-bandwidth laser link, and ported into

a virtualization stack) don't want them to stop. Breathing is wholly

unnecessary, but suppression of the breathing reflex is disturbing unless

you hack your hypothalamic map, and most homomorphic uploads don't

want to do that. Then there's eating -- not to avoid starvation, but for

pleasure: Feasts on sautéed dodo seasoned with silphium are readily

available here, and indeed, why not? It seems the human addiction to

sensory input won't go away. And that's without considering sex, and the



technical innovations that become possible when the universe -- and the

bodies within it -- are mutable

***

I have NO IDEA why its formatted like that or the proper way to REFORMAT it.

so just get rid of the double breaks and make it this

***
Take a brain and put it in a bottle. Better: take a map of the brain and put
it in a map of a bottle -- or of a body -- and feed signals to it that mimic
its neurological inputs. Read its outputs and route them to a model body
in a model universe with a model of physical laws, closing the loop. René
Descartes would understand. That's the state of the passengers of the
Field Circus in a nutshell. Formerly physical humans, their neural
software (and a map of the intracranial wetware it runs on) has been
transferred into a virtual machine environment executing on a honking
great computer, where the universe they experience is merely a dream
within a dream
Brains in bottles -- empowered ones, with total, dictatorial, control over
the reality they are exposed to -- sometimes stop engaging in activities
that brains in bodies can't avoid. Menstruation isn't mandatory. Vomiting,
angina, exhaustion, and cramp are all optional. So is meatdeath, the
decomposition of the corpus. But some activities don't cease, because
people (even people who have been converted into a software
description, squirted through a high-bandwidth laser link, and ported into
a virtualization stack) don't want them to stop. Breathing is wholly
unnecessary, but suppression of the breathing reflex is disturbing unless
you hack your hypothalamic map, and most homomorphic uploads don't
want to do that. Then there's eating -- not to avoid starvation, but for
pleasure: Feasts on sautéed dodo seasoned with silphium are readily
available here, and indeed, why not? It seems the human addiction to
sensory input won't go away. And that's without considering sex, and the

technical innovations that become possible when the universe -- and the
bodies within it -- are mutable
***

but its clear thats not quite right but I don't have a better way right now so its what I am using.

ahh it is pretty close. HERE is the same section in the PDF. Very odd formatting.

I have also attach the PDF and the TXT I made from it. (the author gave permission to do this in his lincensing)

Suggest on better ways to automate the conversion? does not have to be txt but close in its simplicity is preferred ie readable on the pc without special software and readable native on the sony reader.