It doesn’t just ask if we are alone; it asks if our very sense of "self" is a handicap in a competitive universe.
A biologist whose body is so heavily interfaced with the ship that he can "feel" the hull and "taste" radiation. Core Themes: Intelligence vs. Consciousness Blindsight by Peter Watts.epub
40% into Blindsight, by Peter Watts, and quite bored. Should I give up? It doesn’t just ask if we are alone;
To meet an alien intelligence, humanity sends a crew that is barely human themselves: Consciousness 40% into Blindsight, by Peter Watts, and
Watts uses this philosophical thought experiment to suggest that something can process information and communicate perfectly without actually "understanding" what it’s doing.
The central, chilling argument of the book is that .
Peter Watts has made the book available for free under a Creative Commons license on his official site, though you can also find it at retailers like Barnes & Noble .