Thursday, June 4, 2009

Blindsight

image © Peter Watts

Is your biology scholarship as up to date as you think? Is sentience a parasite on the basic bauplan? Is language a virus? Did William Burroughs' idolin, the ugly spirit, find a new home? Is the phrase, "it can't get any worse", just a shorthand way of asking for a world of pain? Read Peter Watt's Blindsight and enjoy psychosis as an adaptive survival strategy.

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