• Rolando@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    You should read Blindsight by Peter Watts.

    Yeah, when I read that book I was like: this reminds me of that time I freaked out in high school!

    I admire the fact that the author put it online for free, and it’s a pretty good book, but it could have been better… Watts could have taken all those ideas about consciousness and humanity and produced something like 1984 or Catch-22 that embodies ideas that might otherwise get lost in abstractions. Unfortunately the ideas all get a little muddled.

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      11 months ago

      Yeah for sure! On the other hand it being such a dense, philosophical book means it really stands up to and benefits from a re-read! And the audiobook has a great narrator IMO.

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        11 months ago

        Well, this conversation inspired me to finally read The Colonel, which reminded me of how great some of Watts’ ideas could be. Guess I’ll have to get a copy of Echopaxia next.

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          11 months ago

          Oh damn I didn’t know about that! I’ll be reading that this week, thanks for the link!

          Echopaxia was definitely different, I wasn’t crazy about it my first read through but it had me shook pretty good my second read through. I highly recommend it!