Blindsight
From kwharrison13.com · Anti-library
Blindsight
| Author | Peter Watts |
|---|---|
| Published | 2006 |
| Pages | 384 |
| Recommended | 2 times |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Peter Watts’s novel of first contact with something intelligent and not conscious — the novel the current argument about whether intelligence requires awareness keeps landing on. |
Where I heard about it
- Noah Smith (@Noahpinion) — in a reply to Ross Douthat on X, February 2026: “It deals with the idea of non-conscious intelligence, and posits that consciousness is an anomaly.”
- Will Manidis’s “most underrated PDF” thread, July 2023 — posted as an answer. See The Most Underrated PDF on the Internet (July 2023).
Connections
- Noah Smith — the recommender.
- Artificial Intelligence — the reason the book has a second life twenty years on.
- Science Fiction
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.