- Rating
- Category
- sci-fi
- Read
- 2020-11-28
- Pages
- 384
One of the best and most unique sci-fi I’ve read. If you have any interest, don’t read the blurb just go in empty.
Spoiler
Simply in awe at how he included vampire lore in a space sci-fi and it totally worked.
“Still. There’s always a way to win.” “If I said that, you’d call it wishful thinking.” “If you said that, it would be. But I’m saying it, so it’s game theory.”
We’re not thinking machines, we’re—we’re feeling machines that happen to think.
Spoiler
Do you want to know what consciousness is for? Do you want to know the only real purpose it serves? Training wheels. You can’t see both aspects of the Necker Cube at once, so it lets you focus on one and dismiss the other. That’s a pretty half–assed way to parse reality. You’re always better off looking at more than one side of anything. Go on, try. Defocus. It’s the next logical step.
