I really wanted to talk to her. I just couldn't find an algorithm that fit. — Peter Watts Algorithms Copy Share Image
“You had hoped that smarter creatures would be wiser ones.” — Peter Watts Intelligence Copy Share Image
Are you kidding? That's the music of the spheres, commissar. It's beautiful. Like old jazz. — Peter Watts Beautiful Copy Share Image
“Pack animals always tear apart the weaklings in their midst. Every child knows that much instinctively.” — Peter Watts Animals Copy Share Image
“PREDATORS RUN FOR THEIR DINNER. PREY RUN FOR THEIR LIVES. —OLD ECOLOGIST’S PROVERB” — Peter Watts Hunting 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
“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
“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
But when the flash flood crosses your path, when the lion leaps at you from the grasses, advanced self-awareness is an unaffordable… — Peter Watts Awareness Copy Share Image
Stars, everywhere. So many stars that I could not for the life me understand how the sky could contain them all yet… — Peter Watts Astronomy Copy Share Image
“So there’s a membrane of—of living tissue around that star,” I say, trying to wrap my head around the concept. “A, a… — Peter Watts Astronomy Copy Share Image
“ Everyone’s got intimacy issues these days, in case you hadn’t noticed.” He must have; the population had been dropping for decades.” — 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… — Peter Watts Absurd Copy Share Image
“Maybe your empathy's just a comforting lie, you ever think of that? Maybe you think you know how the other person feels… — Peter Watts Cynicism 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
Computers bootstrap their own offspring, grow so wise and incomprehensible that their communiqués assume the hallmarks of dementia: unfocused and irrelevant to… — Peter Watts Analysis Copy Share Image
Not even the most heavily-armed police state can exert brute force to all of its citizens all of the time. Meme management… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
“I know, I know: it can be frustrating as hell. But people have an unfortunate habit of assuming they understand the reality… — Peter Watts Analogy 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
“Brüks digested that. “Well, if it was supposed to be some kind of compliment, her delivery needs work. You’d think someone with… — 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… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
“Computation, after all, implied a problem not yet solved, insights not yet achieved. There was really only one sort of program for… — Peter Watts Computation Copy Share Image
“Centuries of navel-gazing. Millennia of masturbation. Plato to Descartes to Dawkins to Rhanda. Souls and zombie agents and qualia. Kolmogorov complexity. Consciousness… — Peter Watts Consciousness Copy Share Image
“Rumors had their own classic epidemiology. Each started with a single germinating event. Information spread from that point, mutating and interbreeding—a conical… — Peter Watts Conspiracy theories Copy Share Image
“Fifty thousand years ago there were these three guys spread out across the plain and they each heard something rustling in the… — Peter Watts Humble beginnings 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
“We've surpassed ourselves now, we're exploring terrain beyond the limits of merely human understanding. Sometimes its contours, even in conventional space, are… — Peter Watts Learning Copy Share Image
“IMAGINE YOU ARE Siri Keeton. You wake in an agony of resurrection, gasping after a record-shattering bout of sleep apnea spanning one… — Peter Watts Breath 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
“A whole planet of worlds, and not one of them—not one—has a soul. They wander through their lives separate and alone, unable… — Peter Watts Communication Copy Share Image
