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I enjoyed Blindsight, but I really did not enjoy Echopraxia. It feels like it sort of undoes some of the conclusions in Blindsight. While at the same time fai
by Verdex 4y ago
I enjoyed Blindsight, but I really did not enjoy Echopraxia. It feels like it sort of undoes some of the conclusions in Blindsight. While at the same time failing to do very much with its own conclusions and ideas.
Watts' Freeze Frame Revolution (set in a different universe iirc) feels like a better book to follow up Blindsight with, personally.
- shkkmo 4y agoPart of the whole point of Blindsight is that the reliability of the narrator is explicitly suspect on a couple of different levels.
- Verdex 4y agoThe twist of Blindsight is that a fundamental assumption about the nature of intelligence is false. The book takes a very long time setting this up and then it hammers it into both the reader and the protagonist. It seems to be saying, "Hey this is a big deal and you're not going to accept it, so I'm going to shovel it down your throat with a snow plow." In Echopraxia they have the same idea, but it's trivialized in a blink and you miss it throwaway line and accepted as fact by everyone. I get that the author didn't want to just retread the same ground over and over. However, I feel it's a mistake to trivialize something that a bunch of post human super savants were surprised by.
- AlwaysRock 4y agoWill check out Freeze Frame Revolution. Thanks.