The horror of "Blindsight" isn't that sapience is rare in the universe, or even that it's rare on earth. It's that it's rare among homo sapiens, and "vampires" already exist.
>>24114780Wasn't the message of this that venture capitalists are like vampires and the rest of us are sheep at best?
>>24114780It’s the implication that psychopaths aren’t conscious, as they have no conscience. Get it? The main character has to get “woken up” by the vampire.
Oh cool. Another vampire book. I love vampires. I want to read about vampires in every context and genre. Vampires are an eternal wellspring of originality. There is no more interesting literary trope than the vampire. I love vampires. Vampires need to be in every book. More vampires. Please.
>>24116016Blonde lolipires are the best thing to come out of japan.
>>24114780What's the deal with "only vampires can see both cubes at the same time". I can see both cubes at the same time.
>>24116224that's exactly what a vampire would say
>>24116224>I can see both cubes at the same timeI don't buy it, seeing a given face as exterior and interior at the same instant doesn't make any senseKnowing it can be seen either way intellectually isn't the same as experiencing itIt's like the rotating dancer, you're seeing it one way or the other at any given moment even if you can cause yourself to see it clockwise or counter-clockwise at whim
The horror the story is going for is the possibility that consciousness itself is an evolutionary dead end and we might be better off without it from a purely Darwinian standpoint.
>>24116824but are there vampires?
>>24116224>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>! VAMPIRE ALERT !
>>24116546Nta but I can force myself to see both cubes at the same time and do similar stuff with optical illusions. When do I get my vampire powers?
>>24114780The horror of blindsight is Peter Watts greatly overestimating how profound and intelligent he is and making a 2deep4u book for midwit sci-fi idiots to master are to on how deeply philosophical they are when in reality it’s babies first experience with the concept of consciousness. It is the Sally Rooney of science fiction.
>>24114780sex with valerie
>>24116989Hard to argue with that
>>24116224Wait what. I never realized that. I keep blinking and my vision switches between them.
>>24114780You should read Siege by James Mason.
>>24116830Sort of. In the setting there was, supposedly, a subspecies of humans that evolved to prey on other humans that went extinct at some-point. The species is accidentally recreated when a retroviral cure for autism turns out to use traces of the vampire genome present in our own. So basically vampires are amoral giga-autists.
>>24116546No, they don't just snap into either cube, I mean I can see it that way also, but they kinda blend together and you can clearly see two cubes at the same time.
