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Blindsight by Peter Watts has some interesting ideas about how consciousness may not be a necessarily condition for advanced life, and indeed may be a hindrance
by rozab 3y ago
Blindsight by Peter Watts has some interesting ideas about how consciousness may not be a necessarily condition for advanced life, and indeed may be a hindrance and an evolutionary dead end. The appendices also have a lot of good references on the subject.
You can read under CC here https://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm https://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm
- TotalCrackpot 3y agoBlindsight is lit! Great novel.
- amelius 3y ago> consciousness may not be a necessarily condition for advanced life This will probably be shown true when silicon-based life takes over.
- rozab 3y agoIndeed! I won't spoil it, but there's some very prescient ideas about what are essentially LLMs and how they behave