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Reality went out the window the moment we started mediating sensory input through a nervous system. You want to actually perceive the universe directly, without any stupid scribbles or model-building? Become a protozoan.Peter Watts
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I know, I know: it can be frustrating as hell. But people have an unfortunate habit of assuming they understand the reality just because they understood the analogy. You dumb down brain surgery enough for a preschooler to think he understands it, the little tyke’s liable to grab a microwave scalpel and start cutting when no one’s looking.Peter Watts
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You ever try holding, say, even a single chapter of a novel in your head? Consciously? All at once?Peter Watts
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The neurological condition of echopraxia is to autonomy as blindsight is to consciousness.Peter Watts
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It’s kind of like a Zen thing. Like playing the piano, or being a centipede in Heaven.Peter Watts
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Dogs are always going to come up short if you insist on defining them as a weird kind of cat.Peter Watts
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Transcendence is transformation.Peter Watts
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It was machines that scanned the heavens, machines that probed the space between atoms, machines that asked the questions and designed to experiments to answer them. All that was left for mere meat, apparently, was navel-gazing.Peter Watts
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Word of advice, ” the Colonel said from the other side. “Don’t tease the zombies.Peter Watts
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Everyone’s running from something.Peter Watts