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. — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
People aren't rational. We're not thinking machines, we're - we're feeling machines that happen to think. — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
“You are all sleepwalkers, whether climbing creative peaks or slogging through some mundane routine for the thousandth time. You are all sleepwalkers.” — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
“Evolution has no foresight. Complex machinery develops its own agendas. Brains — cheat. Feedback loops evolve to promote stable heartbeats and then stumble upon… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
“The Zodiac had rearranged itself into a precise grid of bright points with luminous tails. It was as though the whole planet had been… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
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… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
“So much anger in here. So much hate. So much to take out on someone. This time it's going to count. She's adrift in… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest. — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
“I brought her flowers one dusky Tuesday evening when the light was perfect. I pointed out the irony of that romantic old tradition— the… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
“Ludzie naprawdę nie walczą o odcień skóry czy ideologię – to tylko wygodne wskazówki do identyfikacji „swoich”. Wyszystko zawsze sprowadza się do więzów krwi… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
I really wanted to talk to her. I just couldn't find an algorithm that fit. — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
“I know your race and mine are never on the best of terms." There was a cold smile in his voice if not on… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
If believing absurd falsehoods increase the odds of getting laid or avoiding predators, your brain will believe those falsehoods with all its metaphorical little… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
