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The result is a shocking and mesmerizing performance, a tour-de-force of provocative and often alarming ideas. Years afterwards, a comet-surveying satellite stumbles across a radio transmission originating from a comet, subsequently named 'Burns-Caulfield'. Ihre zuletzt angesehenen Artikel und besonderen Empfehlungen. “Blindsight is a tour de force, redefining the First Contact story for good. Juli 2019. Les membres Amazon Prime profitent de la livraison accélérée gratuite sur des millions d’articles, d’un accès à des milliers de films et séries sur Prime Video, et de nombreux autres avantages.

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[Watts is] one of the two or three best hard SF writers around, and this is his finest book to date."

Imagine you are nothing at all.

--Interzone Blindsight is fearless: a magnificent, darkly gleaming jewel of a book that hurdles the contradictions inherent in biochemistry, consciousness, and human hearts without breaking stride. Blindsight est un roman de hard SF spatiale écrit par Peter Watts en 2006 et nominé pour les Hugo. Signs of alien life are seen - not just signs, but challenging ones. . Bought this on a friend's recommandation.

They may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find. Aus der Lektüre geht kein Leser unverändert hervor, die Sicht auf die Welt und das, was wir als Menschen darin erreichen können, hat sich für mich tiefgreifend verändert. Veuillez renouveler votre requête plus tard. Nachdem Sie Produktseiten oder Suchergebnisse angesehen haben, finden Sie hier eine einfache Möglichkeit, diese Seiten wiederzufinden. Il s’adresse essentiellement à des lecteurs férus de science, et certainement habitués à lire de la SF. April 2012. The Dark Forest, Tiamat's Wrath: Book 8 of the Expanse (now a Prime Original series).

[11][13], Philosopher John Searle's Chinese room thought experiment is used as a metaphor to illustrate the tension between the notions of consciousness as an interior experience of understanding, as contrasted with consciousness as the emergent result of merely functional non-introspective components. Some of the descriptions of the environment, surroundings and -spoiler- are so incredibly detailed and evocative it's impressive. [8][11][13][14] These vampires operate with diminished sentience presented as comparable to high-functional autism with comparable dysfunction in affect and speech, but have the advantage of multiple simultaneous thoughts occurring in parallel within their minds.

Das Buch ist seit Jahren mein Lieblingsbuch, und ich habe recht viel gelesen, insbesondere im Bereich ernst zu nehmender Science fiction.

The Dark Forest, ""Blindsight" is fearless: a magnificent, darkly gleaming jewel of a book that hurdles the contradictions inherent in biochemistry, consciousness, and human hearts without breaking stride.

Certainly enough of a jolt to get me started and hooked for at least the first 100 pages. 6 Personen fanden diese Informationen hilfreich, Blindsight: Started Well but didn’t hold the Pace for me, Rezension aus dem Vereinigten Königreich vom 9. [9] However, the possibility is raised that consciousness is, for humanity, an evolutionary dead end. Rezension aus Deutschland vom 15. Die Handlung wird aber nie durch den stabilen wissenschaftlichen Unterbau ersetzt, sie erlaubt vielmehr profunde Einsichten in die Abgründe der Psyche der 5 Protagonisten. ""We'd like to know about this tree. Send a pacifist warrior, and a vampire recalled from the grave by the voodoo of paleogenetics. [9][13][14] Within the novel, humans no longer engage in sex with other humans for pleasure, instead choosing to use virtual reality to find idealized and submissive partners,[9] and many choose to withdraw from reality entirely by living in constructed virtual worlds, referred to as "Heaven".

You fear they may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find - but you'd give anything for that to be true, if you knew what was waiting for them.

[8][9][11] Is an interior emotional experience necessary for empathy, or is empathic behavior sufficient to possess empathy?

I can’t recall what prompted me to purchase this book.