Blindsight: The Hardest Sci Fi I Actually Enjoyed
The Hardest Science Fiction I Have Actively Enjoyed
Blindsight is hard science fiction in the strictest sense: the science is real, the extrapolations are current, and Peter Watts does not explain things twice. I am not a neuroscientist or a physicist, but the book is built in a way that makes you feel you understand enough to follow what is happening. The central question of whether consciousness is a useful evolutionary adaptation is the most genuinely unsettling thing I have encountered in the entire genre.
Reconsidering what consciousness is actually for
"Imagine you are blind and then you can see again. That is only the beginning of it.
"Peter Watts
Reading Blindsight
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There is a free PDF of this novel on the author's website. Peter Watts released it under a Creative Commons license. This is both generous and a sign of his confidence in the work.