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Blindsight
Peter Watts · 2006 · 455 pages
本书通过幻想小说探讨存在与意识的终极命题.战斗场景是远在奥尔特星云的大本星体,探测者几番在吸血鬼的命令下,忍受着死亡射线的威胁深入罗夏内部探求真相;书中所探讨的核心主题,却回归至人类本身----人类最终的进化方向到底是什么;如果唯有摒弃自我意识才能在茫茫星海中生存下去,这是进化还是灭绝.
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Andrej Karpathy
“I thought I was going to enjoy this book because I was told that it has nice, hard-sci-fi-like aliens. Unfortunately, I learned that that this is a necessary but not a sufficient condition. The aliens were great and fun to contemplate, but there's something about the writing, the way the story is structured and the events that unfold that was simply off. The story is difficult to parse - Peter Watts doesn't hand it to you on the silver platter, for your enjoyment. He makes you work for it, and writes the story in a way that, I thought, required a lot of inferences and reading between the lines. There were also large passages containing some back story for the main character that I didn't fully understand the point of. In summary, I don't think I fully got all the details of this book in a first reading and I emerged somewhat confused about what just happened, and I'll just blame it on the book :) 3/5”↗
John Carmack
“"Blindsight by Peter Watts (2006) is my standout fiction book of the year, by far. Grand, challenging, scary, and super autistic."”↗
Ethan Mollick
“"Science fiction besides Terminator to read to consider different paths for the future of AI: Watt’s Blindsight for dark musing on sentience & intelligence. (And two twists I can’t give away) Becky Chambers: AI are people, too Bank’s Culture: coexistence with other minds Others?"”↗
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