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Was it good? Do you have the title?
by crashmat 2y ago
Was it good? Do you have the title?
- thescriptkiddie 2y agothey may be referring to blindsight by peter watts
- pinko 2y agoProbably _Blindsight_ by Peter Watts
- roughly 2y agoIt was not, but that was also an absolutely fantastic book. I don't remember the sequel, Echopraxia, being as good, although there's a couple plot points from it that I do remember as weird ideas.
- roughly 2y agoIt was! The whole book plays a lot with various types of consciousness. Although that was a bit of a spoiler, so out of respect I'll give a somewhat obfuscated link and just say if you're reading something by Alastair Reynolds right now you should consider that before following the link: https://openlibrary.org/books/OL26809698M https://openlibrary.org/books/OL26809698M (Reynolds' got enough books in his bibliography I don't feel like I'm spoiling anything by mentioning his name - I suspect I could come up with any random plot point and he's probably written it in somewhere)
- wiml 2y agoAh, I thought this was going to be Karl Schrœder's Permanence, in which (unless I'm confusing it with a different book) a background point is that consciousness is only really useful in some niches, and most spacefaring species eventually lose it.
- jrd259 2y agoJohn Varley had a short story with that idea, too. A spacefaring race that is only conscious when needed. Good sarcastic lecture about how consciousness is overrated by those who have it.