6/23/2023 0 Comments Echopraxia watts![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I am not the conscious part of myself, I am my whole self. I disagree with Watts about what the "I" is. But we, the conscious bit, should hang on as long as we can. But we like being conscious! One day probably humanity will evolve past it, as the vampires (and many other things) in Blindsight do. Consciousness is, in this world, a superfluous evolutionary dead end. In a reddit AMA after Echopraxia, Watts was talking about the theme of consciousness in Firefall (more Blindsight than Echopraxia, but it came in the Echopraxia AMA) and said that perhaps we should think of ourselves not as the human organism, but as the parasite (consciousness) riding the organism (human). They're stimulating and interesting and important. Or even what events actually transpired in the book. I love that Watts takes scientific developments seriously, I love that it takes a good amount of sitting down and thinking to work out what a book is about. ![]()
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