But pattern-matching doesn't equal comprehension.
Peter WattsTags: intelligence comprehension pattern-matching
Sometimes we took refuge in our diving bell while waves of charge and magnetism spiraled languidly past, like boluses of ectoplasm coursing down the intestine of some poltergeist god.
Peter WattsYou had hoped that smarter creatures would be wiser ones.
Peter WattsTags: wisdom intelligence smarter
Brains are survival engines, not truth detectors.
Peter WattsTags: brain
You are all sleepwalkers, whether climbing creative peaks or slogging through some mundane routine for the thousandth time. You are all sleepwalkers.
Peter WattsI don't understand how meat like you survived to adulthood.
Peter WattsTags: vampire fiction-novel blindsight peter-watts
People aren't rational. We're not thinking machines, we're - we're feeling machines that happen to think.
Peter WattsTags: humanity nature blindsight
It’s really kind of… well, beautiful, in a way. Even the monsters, once you get to know ‘em. We’re all beautiful.
Peter WattsI visited blathernodes, soaked myself in other people's opinions.
Peter WattsTags: opinions neologism neologisms
We were all in it together, of course, desperate to regain some hypothetical upper hand by any means necessary.
Peter WattsTags: delusions rat-race superiority-complex delusions-of-grandeur
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