People aren't rational. We're not thinking machines, we're - we're feeling machines that happen to think. — Peter Watts Computers 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 Habits Copy Share Image
“Evolution has no foresight. Complex machinery develops its own agendas. Brains — cheat. Feedback loops evolve to promote stable heartbeats and then… — Peter Watts Art 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… — Peter Watts Fire 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.… — Peter Watts Adequate 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… — Peter Watts Anger Copy Share Image
The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest. — Peter Watts Altruism 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… — 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… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
I really wanted to talk to her. I just couldn't find an algorithm that fit. — Peter Watts Algorithms 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… — Peter Watts Humanity 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… — Peter Watts Absurd Copy Share Image
“The math was irrefutable: The one winning strategy was concealment. Only fools revealed their birthdays.” — Peter Watts Birthday Copy Share Image
“Hey, chaotic trajectories are just as deterministic as any other kind.” — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
“My genes done gone and tricked my brain By making fucking feel so great That's how the little creeps attain Their plan… — Peter Watts Procreation Copy Share Image
“But people have an unfortunate habit of assuming they understand the reality just because they understood the analogy. You dumb down brain… — Peter Watts Brain surgery Copy Share Image
Perfect hexagonal tubes in a packed array. Bees are hard-wired to lay them down, but how does an insect know enough geometry… — Peter Watts Axes Copy Share Image
“Mind out of the gutter, Suze. Eros is only one kind of love, eh? Ancient Greeks recognised four.” — Peter Watts Ancient greek Copy Share Image
Every concert pianist knows that the surest way to ruin a performance is to be aware of what the fingers are doing.… — Peter Watts Body Copy Share Image
“But only part of him was listening. Another part, even if it hadn't read Chomsky or Jung or Sheldrake—who had time for… — Peter Watts Collective unconscious Copy Share Image
“Now keep in mind, memories aren’t historical archives. They’re—improvisations, really. A lot of the stuff you associate with a particular event might… — Peter Watts History Copy Share Image
