Blindsight
Watts's hard science fiction novel follows a crew encountering alien intelligence that may be conscious without self-awareness. Through neuroscience and philosophy, it explores consciousness, self, intelligence, and what it means to be sentient. The work is a profound meditation on the nature of consciousness and its relationship to intelligence.
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