But when the flash flood crosses your path, when the lion leaps at you from the grasses, advanced self-awareness is an unaffordable indulgence. The brain stem does its best.
Every concert pianist knows that the surest way to ruin a performance is to be aware of what the fingers are doing. Every dancer and acrobat knows en… - Peter Watts
Every concert pianist knows that the surest way to ruin a performance is to be aware of what the fingers are doing. Every dancer and acrobat knows en…
- Peter Watts
People aren't rational. We're not thinking machines, we're - we're feeling machines that happen to think. - Peter Watts
People aren't rational. We're not thinking machines, we're - we're feeling machines that happen to think.
Radar is too long in the tooth for fine detail. - Peter Watts
Radar is too long in the tooth for fine detail.
I am the bridge between the bleeding edge and the dead center. I stand between the Wizard of Oz and the man behind the curtain. I am the curtain. - Peter Watts
I am the bridge between the bleeding edge and the dead center. I stand between the Wizard of Oz and the man behind the curtain. I am the curtain.
The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest. - Peter Watts
The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest.
There's no such things as survival of the fittest. Survival of the most adequate, maybe. It doesn't matter whether a solution's optimal. All that mat… - Peter Watts
There's no such things as survival of the fittest. Survival of the most adequate, maybe. It doesn't matter whether a solution's optimal. All that mat…
Stars, everywhere. So many stars that I could not for the life me understand how the sky could contain them all yet be so black. - Peter Watts
Stars, everywhere. So many stars that I could not for the life me understand how the sky could contain them all yet be so black.
If believing absurd falsehoods increase the odds of getting laid or avoiding predators, your brain will believe those falsehoods with all its metapho… - Peter Watts
If believing absurd falsehoods increase the odds of getting laid or avoiding predators, your brain will believe those falsehoods with all its metapho…
This is how you communicate with a fellow intelligence: You hurt it, you keep on hurting it, until you can distinguish the speech from the screams. - Peter Watts
This is how you communicate with a fellow intelligence: You hurt it, you keep on hurting it, until you can distinguish the speech from the screams.
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