Peter Watts Quotes
Peter Watts Quotes
What's the survival value of obsessing on a sunset?
2309 If the rest of your brain were conscious, it would probably regard you as the pointy-haired boss from Dilbert
2748 Computation, after all, implied a problem not yet solved, insights not yet achieved. There was really only one sort of program for which foreknowledge of the outcome didn't diminish the point of exercise, and Brüks had never been able to find any religious orders that described God as a porn addict.
4972 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.
1917 My genes done gone and tricked my brain
By making fucking feel so great
That's how the little creeps attain
Their plan to fuckin' replicate
But brain's got tricks itself, you see
To get the bang but not the bite
I got this here vasectomy
My genes can fuck themselves tonight.
- The R-Selectors, Trunclade
3506 Nature, though. Nature always welcomed him. She passed no judgements, didn’t care about right or wrong, guilt or innocence.
1067 People aren't rational. We're not thinking machines, we're - we're feeling machines that happen to think.
3485 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.
1626 The laws of physics were the OS of some inconceivable supercomputer called reality.
2876 After four thousand years we can’t even prove that reality exists beyond the mind of the first-person dreamer.
2753 Not even the most heavily-armed police state can exert brute force to all of its citizens all of the time. Meme management is so much subtler; the rose-tinted refraction of perceived reality, the contagious fear of threatening alternatives.
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