We could even argue that we are good at thinking we are in control of our own thoughts. If you haven't looked into it already I recommend Blindsight by Peter W

We could even argue that we are good at thinking we are in control of our own thoughts. If you haven't looked into it already I recommend Blindsight by Peter Watts followed by the short story The Colonel and Echopraxia. They talk a lot about human consciousness and it's importance or lack thereof. With an actually original and scary alien contact (related to the topic at hand), scary non cringe hard scify vampires (also related), in my opinion really good prose and in general high density of interesting concepts per page. With bonus real life papers at the end that extrapolated could explain the ideas presented in the books. I'm gonna stop because I'm far past the point that Watts should pay me ad money. It's licenced under Creative Commons. You can get it for free here (epub link at the top or read it straight from the page): https://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm https://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm I would tell you to donate/buy it if you like it but maybe if he feels the pressure in his bank account he finally writes the next one. jk please pay him, he deserves it.