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    4 days ago

    The novels Blindsight and Echopraxia (Or the omnibus of the two, Firefall) by Peter Watts are a pretty great bit of sci-fi/psychological horror. It explores the questions of what exactly is consciousness and intelligence, etc.
    Also there are space vampires.

    The main character has been turned into a kind of Chinese Room for human emotion/intention by some kind of brain surgery… Which is why I am thinking about the books right now.

    I really thoroughly enjoyed the books and they way they were written, which is mostly in the first-person view of the main character, flaws, insights, Chinese Room and all.

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    You can say the same about any human interaction.

    You never know exactly what’s going on in their heads.

    See Simulation Theory, and if you turn it back on yourself, Impostor Syndrome