The Wrong Kind of Evolution | Blindsight

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The technical term for modern humans is Homo Sapiens Sapiens, we are the current iteration of a genus going back two million years. There were however, obviously many species of humans who did not go on. Who for whatever reason could not adapt to their environments well enough to carry on their DNA. Examples include, Homo Neanderthalensis, Homo Erectus, and Homo Floresiensis. In the novel, Blindsight, Peter Watts, merely adds an additional species to that list, they evolved in a different way, the wrong way.
This particular species of human lacked the ability to synthesize the protein, protocadherin - Y, which other species of humans produced naturally. Their brains and bodies were different as well, they were smarter, stronger, and faster than other humans. And in the earlier eras of humanity, when myth and legend were still being formed they preyed upon us in the night. Ancient humanity was only able to drive them to extinction when they discovered that the creatures had an aversion to right angles. This trait had developed naturally through some fluke of genetics. It was seemingly neutral at first as right angles do not form very often in nature. But once this fact was revealed to humanity, they drove them back into the darkness, seemingly forever. Until many eons later science brought them back.
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@stewartglencrose9023 Год назад

I love the fact this was referenced in the Casltevania series, Trevor Belmont said vampires weren’t stopped by holy symbols, but they got confused by geometric shapes.

@Dxtuned Год назад

Cool thing about the cross is that it is also a representation of the three dimensional cube (a core platonic solid) unfolded in a 2D plane.

@forgettable8300 Год назад

@@Dxtuned that's actually really trippy

@30035XD Год назад

@@Dxtuned You mean the net of a cube.

@psionicsknight6651 Год назад

Yes! Someone else who noticed that reference!

@LaneMaxfield Год назад

There's a Terry Pratchett book called Carpe Jugulum where vampires try to desensitize themselves to holy symbols by deconstructing them. That isn't a cross, it's just two right angles stuck together, etc. It works for a while, but then a witch starts messing with them and they can suddenly see holy symbols EVERYWHERE.

@jacekstopa2728 Год назад

The fascinating thing about the artificial specialized evolution in Blindsight (which really just reduces people to specific functions), is how each time it achieves the opposite result to the one intended. The supersoldier turns out to be a pacifist, the communication specialist can't even connect to her own species, let alone the aliens, and the predatory monster is the one who shows actual empathy and even compassion.

@keithmichael112 Год назад

it's like trying to insist that your kid go into a certain field, it never works

@wingracer1614 Год назад

So it's a book based on Grunge lyrics? As a friend, as a friend As an old enemy Take your time, hurry up

@marcusrauch4223 Год назад

@@wingracer1614 I can hear that text in my head

@aceundead4750 Год назад

@@wingracer1614 iv spent years trying to figure out what was being said, so it's "as an old enemy" thank you so much.

@scleless1342 Год назад

@@aceundead4750 I do the se thing haha. I'll spend years just being too lazy to look up the lyrics, singing them wrong everytime. And I'm a musician lol! (A guitarist not a singer but still embarrassing. I've played Piano, Drums and Trumpet fairly often so no excuses)

@burningbronze7555 Год назад

I don't dislike supernatural vampires but I do prefer it when they have to start dealing with the laws of nature and biology as how strange it can get always interests me.

@veramae4098 Год назад

I like the idea of a genetic defect. It could work. Humans have part of the genetic code to create our own vitamin C, but somewhere in genetic history it was broken.

@DarrinSK Год назад

I think the way they treated vampires in the blade movies from when I was a kid was a perfect mix

@maeton-gaming Год назад

This story has the greatest ever scientific reasoning behind the reason Vampires get "grand mal" seizures when they look at right angles (crosses) and I FREAKING LOVE IT.

@conq1273 Год назад

It's like House Asher from edgar allen poe where the sister raised from the dead

@robertgronewold3326 Год назад

@@conq1273 The sister didn't rise from the dead in House of Usher. She literally had a seizure that caused her to go rigid, and her idiot brother entombed her alive, forcing her to break out.

@shumookerjee293 Год назад

Watts is a biologist by trade, so his explanations around other races and species are extremely plausible. Or at the very least, logically conceived.

@Minotaur-ey2lg Год назад

True, but he still admitted that the aliens turned out to just be hyper-intelligent cephalopods. I still find it to be one of the most realistic first contact scenarios.

@tycarne7850 Год назад

@@Minotaur-ey2lg Hyper-intelligent but not actually conscious.

@Scipionyxsam Год назад

Meh. The quirk of being so deterred to geometrical shapes, that it literally destroyed your species is very far out there. It would be selected against heavily and there's no plausible reason for it to spread over a whole species in the first place.

@mikekeenan8450 Год назад

@@Scipionyxsam The explanation given is that it was a side effect of other brain wiring which was presumably advantageous in other ways, and not a liability because perfect right angles almost never appear in nature. The "done in by architecture" line mentioned by someone else on this page alludes to it - once people started building things, right angles were suddenly everywhere, which helped push vampires towards extinction. Basically, it wasn't selected heavily against for a long time - and then it suddenly was. Don't recall if that's in the book, or only in the "presentation video" posted as promotional material on Watts' website.

@Embassy_of_Jupiter Год назад

When I was a kid I made up this planet where humans were the only animals for millions of years to the point where we filled up all the most important niches and these vampires were pretty much the carnivore niche. Even made a little sketch of their skull that looked like a mix between a wolf and a human. Good times.

@Hom2610 Год назад

I don't suppose you ever read Ringworld? And especially its sequel (I think it's called Ringworld Engineers). It's one of the main concepts the series plays around with

@Embassy_of_Jupiter Год назад

@@Hom2610 No, but that sounds extremely interesting thanks

@dakotaadams189 Год назад

You sure you weren't having waking nightmares about Dougal Dixon's Man After Man?

@covenawhite4855 Год назад

Have you read "Enemies of the System" It is set in the 1 billionth year in Biocom where genetically designed clone people live in a dystopia called Utopia. The Utopian Clone Citizens are communist space travelers with a secret police, official propaganda, and an educated elite. The Utopian Elite come to the planet Lysonet Five where humans descendants of a crashed American space ship fill the role of all mammals. Because the planet is in the Devonian Era of life on Earth with only fish and insects as natively evolved species. Humans are Kangaroos, Mole men, and people. The Utopian Clones are scared and don't know how to act outside of the organized rigid social structure of Biocom.

@PoeLemic Год назад

@@Hom2610 Yeah, I read Niven's books, and they were fabulous.

@tristanlawson5371 Год назад

They actually used the right-angle aversion from Blindsight to explain the efficacy of crosses in the animated Castlevania series!

@theshlauf 2 месяца назад

Honestly that moment felt really out of place in that series... Vampires, Monsters, Demons, Gods, Souls, Holy Water, Heaven, Hell and the personification of Death itself are all confirmed to be real in that series. But the idea that a christian symbol can repel a non-christian vampire is the thing that needs to be rationalized in the lore.

@masterzoroark6664 Год назад

In Echopraxia there is also a vampire, but besides here there is one more creepy element- the so called zombies. "Zombies" are people who have an implant that let's them turn off their conciousness, making their brain focus on every other processes. They are extremaly effective as combatants, but need orders to do anything. There is also one time protagonist of Echopraxia manages to get a closer look at one of the zombies- they are expressionless and their eyes dart inhumanly quickly all around, gatthering as much information as they can since their brain is unshackled from pains of migrane or information overload

@JinKee Год назад

The most horrifying moment in all science fiction is when the Zombie implant disengages at the moment of death, resulting in you waking up when all your life choices catch up with you.

@Minotaur-ey2lg Год назад

Don’t forget the escape. Multiple vampires coordinating without communicating. Just knowing what the optimal path would be if they could cooperate. That’s terrifying.

@masterzoroark6664 Год назад

@@Minotaur-ey2lg And the vampire who is on the mission also found a way to... Manipulate people into exhibiting vampire weakness, among many other things. In book it was explain that she stresses you in a way that your body subtly changes. She also managed to do that ho herself- she survived seeing the cross in the opening of the book without taking the antieuqlidians

@tomorbataar5922 Год назад

The zombies are more than just implanted humans, the book makes a point to the protagonist who looks down on them that they may in fact be dead people revived by technology in nations lacking ethical compulsions, after all after death a lot of rights go away. Or voluntary conscripts. The zombies the vampire controls are hacked anyway, so we wouldn't know where they come from.

@Minotaur-ey2lg Год назад

@@masterzoroark6664 I really need to re-read those. Echopraxia especially. Great novel, but he definitely doesn’t spoon feed you anything.

@CeroAshura Год назад

I'm pretty sure the vampires didn't get extinct through our direct means, rather because they would hibernate extended periods, they eventually woke up to find more and more geometrical shapes being built by the other humans, whom did so unaware of both the existence of vampires and their weaknesses.

@MyMarsham Год назад

Damn Crucifix Glitch. Don’t forget, vampires are so insanely territorial that if you put two of them in a room, you’d need a mop for the blood afterwards. They were never that prevalent anyway, being rabidly homocidal toward another of your own species can’t be good.

@hunterkage2842 Год назад

@@MyMarsham How does the crucifix glitch even work

@MyMarsham Год назад

@@hunterkage2842 it’s basically a result of the way their brains are wired. If an intersecting right angle fires the right pattern of neurons in the retina, it’s the equivalent of flashing a light at a person with epilepsy. Causes a _grand mal_ seizure. When they first evolved, there are very few such intersecting right angles in nature, so it never really became an issue. It was only when people started making things like windows that they found these strange predatory semi-humans having seizures, and were able to kill them. The anti-Euclidians are anti-seizure medications, and administered to allow them to function in our society - with the understanding that we can withdraw the medications if they act up.

@DanielJoyce Год назад

@@hunterkage2842 supposedly just a wiring fault with their brains.

@tycarne7850 Год назад

@@MyMarsham This turns out to be a trait that was deliberately engineered into a truly extreme form when they were brought back, to prevent them collaborating (it didn't work - they were so insanely good at simulation that they could predict the actions of other vampires without ever meeting them) or breeding - if it had been that extreme when they originally existed, they could never have had offspring.

@liabobia Год назад

I love how this book sets up Sarasti as a threat and it turns out he's a bro and just as interested in human survival as everyone else.

@NevTheDeranged Год назад

It's not really clear how much of his actions were his own, and his much he was being run by Theseus, though. Also, his people live on earth, too. But it was cool how it was never clear whether he was a villain or hero- because of course vampires don't think in those terms at all. It'd be interesting to see how his character would be portrayed in a visual medium.

@boringstuff1542 Год назад

I haven't read the book, but based upon the summary he has an incentive to keep humans alive. If humans are dead then he dies and his kind dies. I don't think that makes him a "bro". He doesn't want to save humanity because he wants to he wants to save humanity because he has to.

@NevTheDeranged Год назад

@@boringstuff1542 the sequel goes into a bit of it, but long story short, vampires don't need humans to survive. Even on Theseus, they have synthetic food, so why not synthetic flesh for vampires, complete with necessary hormones? Seems easy enough. They might keep us around the way we keep livestock, tho.

@thomasjoychild4962 Год назад

@@NevTheDeranged Yeah, they don't nutritionally need humans, but they DO also live on earth and are still too sentient for Rorshach to not consider interactions with them as an intrinsic cognitive attack.

@NevTheDeranged Год назад

@@thomasjoychild4962 maybe. It probably doesn't matter, once Rorschach was aimed at earth, there's probably nothing that will deter it. The smart play, for both humans and vampires, is to diasporate into the solar system as soon as possible, so we are no longer at risk of being wiped out by a planetary disaster.

@sevenheadedweasel Год назад

This book blew my mind - the idea that maybe the most successful possible lifeform has advanced processing with no comprehension. This is more and more believable as we see things like chatGPT - you could swear you're talking to a person but there are subtle tells that make you realize it is like the creatures from blindsight. Truly a prescient novel.

@ducksongfans Год назад

imagine chatgpt without all the filters

@twrecks6279 Год назад

@@ducksongfans Sadly, while I agree that a filterless chatGPT could be good for reasons of having less bias, there's a reason for the intial prompt at least. These language models aren't actually very talkative by nature. They have the data to be, but that doesn't mean that they actually are talkative. You do actually need to prime them to be talkative. ChatGPT without the filters just doesn't really want to talk that much. Lol.

@ducksongfans Год назад

@@twrecks6279yeah it would also sayy and give illegal stuff like drug recipes and links to illegal stuff

@twrecks6279 Год назад

@@ducksongfans Oh yeah that as well. I wasn't really talking about that though, mostly the insane left wing political bias lmao. ChatGPT will absolutely preach to you if you let it.

@FirstnameLastname-zq8oy Год назад

@@twrecks6279 why are you sure it would take on an “insane left-wing” political bias? Couldn’t it just as easily take on an insane right-wing political bias? ChatGPT could preach about right-wing ideals just as easily as it could left-wing ideals, I’m curious why you’re so sure it would specifically do the former if the filters were removed.

@MyMarsham Год назад

I’ve yet to see anybody explain _why_ it was decided to resurrect vampires. Their brains are compartmentalised to such a point, they can literally multitask better than any normal computer. Their thought processes are so efficient they can outthink most electronic devices. There’s a scene near the end where Siri sees inside Jukka’s quarters, and the ship’s readout system is a bank of projected screaming human faces. But, it’s very efficient because our brains are hard wired to pick up subtle clues in facial expressions - so the ships forward momentum may be portrayed by the size of an ear, oxygen might be the lines on a forehead, etc. when Siri asks why the faces are screaming, Jukka just shrugs and says, “I _am_ a predator…”

@MyMarsham Год назад

@@braindeaddiver yeah, people with the vampire’s ability to hibernate, sure. But they also resurrect fully functioning vampires and put them in positions of command.

@hendo1877 Год назад

the vampire brain is an exceedingly efficient algorithm. efficient at hunting humans i.e. always being at least one logical step ahead of their prey. Sirasti is the "missing link" between humans and the cephalopods.

@traktorsajt Год назад

I remember reading somewhere that they were trying to cure some genetic defect with retroviral therapy but brought back vampires instead. After that, they just tried making the best of the situation (put hibernation genes into astronauts, use vampires as walking supercomputers).

@MnemonicHack Год назад

Because humans thought they could control them. Simple as.

@msid7748 Год назад

Resurrecting vampires and putting them in charge was the most edgelord-y, Darwin Award-getting moment in an otherwise smart book that takes itself very seriously.

@slebetman Год назад

There are two things I specifically loved about this book. First, the idea that a predatory organism can hide in plain sight within the saccade. Second is the reason why the aliens became hostile towards humanity - they misunderstood our culture to be a DOS attack on their brains because they could not understand why any organism would communicate information that is not useful.

@kevinbaker6200 Год назад

Ever heard of the book Those of my blood? Vampires were aliens that crashed on earth long ago then split into two groups the tourists which saw humans as merely food and the residents whom wanted to coexist with humans. Good book

@zeehero7280 Год назад

Sounds almost like the Magius from Valvrave lol.

@avnblaa7283 Год назад

My man is grinding out videos like no tomorrow

@MrEdd215 Год назад

Thing is, Quinn’s recommendations are so good I have to make myself watch the whole video instead of just stopping halfway through to buy the book. He’s earned that much trust.

@Patrick-yl2xv Год назад

I haven't even watched the video as I write this but I just have to say that your channel is by far one of the best sci fi channels on yt. You have introduced me to some of the best fiction I have ever read and tempted me to actually read Dune which was one of the best book experiences I've had since game of thrones. Thank you and keep up the great work.

@ClayLiford Год назад

Reminiscent of “The Hounds of Tindalos,” where the titular dimensional dogs could only enter our world via right angles. Circles and curves were their bane.

@MrPooleish Год назад

No book review has been met with a quicker trip to Audible. This sounds amazing, and I can't wait to get lost in it.

@josephpotter5766 Год назад

Ironic that the title of this video suggests that the vampires are the wrong kind of evolution, when Blindsight pretty much establishes that they are actually a move in the right direction, towards non-conscious intelligence. Though, of course, this being Peter Watts, the sequel then challenges the very assumptions created in the first book, since maybe it's not consciousness that's the problem after all. Either way, if not for that crucifix glitch, Vampires would have been well on their way to becoming something a lot more well adapted, even before Portia stuck it's oar in.

@chart6454 Год назад

Hmm…do you really think Watts intends Portia as an argument that maybe consciousness isn’t such a problem?

@josephpotter5766 Год назад

@@chart6454 Not what I was implying. It's suggested/established that vampires are 'half conscious' and evolving in that direction. Val clearly intends to use Portia to bootstrap her sub-species into something more usefully cooperative. "Why can't we all get along". Which presumably means sliding deeper down into functional hyperintelligent non-consciousness. Portia 'sticking it's oar in' via whatever Brooks is at the end of the story subverts the natural progress of vampire evolution, which was already headed in the direction of non-conscious hyper-processing.

@thomasjoychild4962 Год назад

@@josephpotter5766 Valerie specifically wanted to engineer the territorial instincts out of vampires, I don't think she was interested in altering or accelerating anything in relation to their consciousness, not as her primary goal at the time at least.

@psionicsknight6651 Год назад

Honestly, the vampires depicted in Blindsight are one of my favorite concepts, as well as one of my favorite versions of vampires-to the point it inspired how I intend to depict vampires in one work, but I digress. It really does make me hope that, if and when this series gets more well-known, more people will get inspired by this “hard sci-fi vampire” and showcase their own versions. Maybe even do a hard sci-fi version of other folkloric creatures. 🙂

@efxnews4776 Год назад

You know, in Brazil theres the legend of the Mapinguari, a gigantic creature so monstruos that would scream with a giant mouth in their belly. Turns out that the creature was real all along, it was an now extinct species of sloth's, and that wasn't the only creature more and more scientists find other creatures that seem to be mythological, but actually exist, another example is the Anaconda wich scientists find not a fossil, but an actual anaconda dead body.

@mediumsoftdrink2866 Год назад

@@efxnews4776 I brought up Watts' vampires with my family before when we started getting into Bigfoot conspiracies. I think it's entirely plausible to think that a large majority of folklore is/was species that may not even be around anymore, maybe even species that are sub-species of our own genes. Who knows, Bigfoot could've been a Neanderthal that forgot to shave and just took a bit too long of a cave-nap ending up on the flip side of the century!

@hotmailcompany52 Год назад

@@mediumsoftdrink2866 You should check out SCP-1000. Whilst its more sci fi than hard scifi I still found it to be an enjoyable read

@hotmailcompany52 Год назад

House of Suns has a race of post-humans who are centaurs that spring to mind

@cnawan Год назад

Good job linking the vampires hibernating until their existence was forgotten with the aliens "photograph" of the entire Earth and their vanishing - I hadn't made that link. Also, how freaky was the photograph idea? Literal omniscience for these quasi-Lovecraftian aliens, even for just an instant - and the way it's described as past tense. They already know, you are seen. And then there's Watts' hive-minds, and the all too believable "zombie" soldiers with their conciousness just switched off...

@tomorbataar5922 Год назад

As I read Echopraxia, the "snapshot" of Earth might just be a photograph of an unknown ecology. Later on in Echopraxia the aliens straight up makes a bug trap for humans AND the far greater intelligence of the Bicameral hivemind. They just want to learn, not invade.

@mediumsoftdrink2866 Год назад

I also agree that the Firefall was simply a "snapshot" of our unknown world as it was. I wouldn't say surveillance, but that is definitely what we must've perceived it as. There is actually some concept art used for I think the French edition or another edition I can't remember exactly, where some scenes like the Firefall were depicted, also in the Blindsight short film (REALLY good) and it's truly scary to think of not only a bunch of these "satellites" suddenly burning through the atmosphere in such a perfectly gridded lat/long format, but also the ensuing dread or paranoia that came after the fact, with the thought of just being known by something out there that you don't know of yet. Caught in 4K with your pants down. If I saw that, I sure as hell know I'd much rather flip the switch with my conscious. Just take me, I am prey and I AM OKAY WITH IT!!!

@KallyFair Год назад

You taking up on Blindsight is a dream come true! Love both the book and your channel! ❤

@wasistdustin Год назад

Your channel really is one of my favorites by now. Love the frequent uploads! The Three Body Problem Series and now Blindsight is just hitting my Sci-Fi nerve :)

@MattUebel Год назад

Blindsight is incredible, this videos are great! Hopefully you cover echopraxia:)

@ih8people Год назад

Watts' writing is quite unusual to me. I started reading the Rifters trilogy, and it's not your usual sci-fi where only the good guys win. He describes a civilisation collapse caused by what can probably be best described as a genetically engineered DNA virus that also somehow infected the future Internet (?) in such great detail, while also making you really _feel_ the characters thoughts. Great read so far

@accelerationquanta5816 Год назад

There's no such thing as "good guys". You're a small child mentally if you believe in such silly things.

@thomasfevre9515 Год назад

I discovered your channel at the highest of asoiaf fever and i loved that you covered things i was already familiar with like lovecraft and liu cixin. But i never heard of this serie before. I'll sure read it asap cause you sell it so well. The idea behind the scramblers is so intriguing and the part about the vampires is also interesting.

@wbeaurowe 11 месяцев назад

I’m so glad you covered this book and I just found it. It’s been a favorite of mine for years and is incredibly underrated. Found you from your old Dune videos and love your channel. You do a great job summarizing everything but with all the good left in! Thank you for what you do!

@Meep-0424 Год назад

I’m loving the high quality streak of videos, Quinn! It’s great that you’re branching out, excited to see what comes next.

@CopperLontra Год назад

I read this last year on Audible. The audiobook is pretty good, the narrator is great and particularly good with the vampire captain. So glad to see some videos talking about it.

@NevTheDeranged Год назад

Yeah his creepy Sarosti voice was one of my favorite parts.

@mathiassvensson7911 Год назад

I find the way humans are unable to hide how terrified they are of the vampires very unsetteling. Thank you for highlighting a great book!

@Hugehugebighuge Год назад

Hey Quinn, first got exposed to your channel through your many collaborations with LML. Just wanna say I’m so happy to see your channel grow so much, really always was hoping for you to be successful. Your content in general, and just your fantastic analysis of our favorite literature is just outstanding. Thank you and keep it up man.

@Brannon1009 Год назад

I honestly thing you are my favorite content creator. It’s always a treat listening.

@jhat8324 Год назад

Possible Spoiler: But another reason Sarasti stays by themselves most of the time could be because he was actually being puppeted by the ship.

@shausen1179 Год назад

Yeah, i remember that, it was revealed at the end he was a puppet.

@yamieamarshmallow2995 Год назад

@@shausen1179 not completely! I've seen Dr. Watts reply to people who asked do Sarasti exist as a separate person or he is only a vessel for a AI. Peter told that Sarasti has his own personality and he and AI merged only when he connect to Captain directly by a cable.

@finlanderxx Год назад

My guess is that why Jukka Sarasti stays by themselves is just because that is just typical for a person with a Finnish name.

@Psilo-gn1sx Год назад

Lol why would you write this in the comments section full of prospective readers?

@thomasjoychild4962 Год назад

Sarasti wasn't a puppet until the very end, IIRC Watts said in a reddit AMA that the AI "intervened drastically" at the end because Sarasti was "malfunctioning" due his the medication being sabotaged and it needed immediate function from his body rather than useless and almost-certainly-fatal-anyway seizures.

@Dark_Jaguar Год назад

An "aversion to right angles" is the first time I've seen a compelling "sci-fi" explanation for a vampire's weakness to crosses. I like it. Now we just need an explanation for their weakness to needing to count beads thrown in the air at them, like in that one vampire movie? Of course I mean Sesame Street: Follow that Bird with The Count.

@NevTheDeranged Год назад

Traditional vampire and fae behavior correspond at least nominally with a bunch of diseases (like rabies) or mental/ health issues (schizophrenia, ocd, strokes, etc). Differences freak people out when they have no understanding of the reasons behind them, so they make up reasons that justify their fear.

@Dark_Jaguar Год назад

@@NevTheDeranged I would be careful trying to mix and match historical accounts of monsters with this or that disease. There may be something to it but it's just as likely that people who knew almost nothing about the world beyond their town's borders, for whom even their own kings and queens were as mythical and unproven to exist as gods, simply filled the darkness of their ignorance with the form and shape of monsters instead.

@NevTheDeranged Год назад

@@Dark_Jaguar probably some of both. I'm not suggesting any particular behavior was solely or even largely responsible for any particular myths, just that they may have been contributing factors to some of the specific elements of some of them.

@Dark_Jaguar Год назад

@@NevTheDeranged You're not the first is the think. Such speculation goes back decades and decades. Maybe not for rabies though. Other diseases have been slotted in too. Sociologists often warn of getting too carried away with it because there is a high risk of only seeing the things that support the idea and ignoring anything that doesn't fit.

@NevTheDeranged Год назад

@@Dark_Jaguar ok. I promise I won't get carried away. ;)

@louisehsu8480 Год назад

Blindsight was the first hard sci-fi book I've ever read and it remains one of my favorites. I've been looking for blindsight content recently, so this is perfect!

@neelzen9975 Год назад

Quinn you're on a roll man. Thanks for the upload and keep up the good work.

@callithasmed8468 Год назад

Sharing your vids with everyone I can. I just want to say, on that last video when you read that Rorschach quote in sync with that music..... the "sick and sinister af" levels were off the chart. Just great production value, man.

@scottstallings3543 Год назад

I have to admit that i deeply admire your appreciation for the endless possibilities given by science fiction. If only we had more such people we might yet see a world different beyond anything we've dreamed...

@tonoornottono Год назад

dreamers do the dreaming but the engineers have to get it done

@Charnelex Год назад

This is one of my favorite thought topics: alternative developments in the evolution of things. Thanks so much Quinn. You have such good taste, bro.

@IamNotChangingMyName Год назад

Good day Quinn; have you ever consider being sponsored by an online bookshop, an audiobook service or a eReader manufacturer? Your channel has been definitely driving what I've been reading/listening for a long time now. I appreciate very much what you are doing and the love and care you put into your work; your channel is amazing. Thank you!

@theonetrueleaftheonetruele5781 Год назад

Incredible how much your channel has grown over a few years! Keep it up with the great content

@morenointl Год назад

found your channel 2 days ago and I can't stop watching!

@douglaswilliams6834 Год назад

I'm jealous of your book collection. 🙂 You have some nice hardcover editions there. About a decade ago, I bought a Kindle and pretty much quit buying paper books, but I've recently started buying paper books again. I just love holding an actual book in my hand and turning the pages. I also love the way they look on the shelf. Kinda like how vinyl albums are having a resurgence in this age of streaming music.

@psybilliah Год назад

thank you for finally covering blingsight!

@LensFog Год назад

Quinn is pumping out videos, each top tier. Amazing work

@gharm9129 Год назад

This is one of the best reviews for a book I've ever heard.

@SeanKL107 Год назад

I'm really glad I found this channel, I'm adding a lot of new books to my to read list

@thomasfreeman3660 Год назад

I’m so glad your covering this one! Just read it a few months ago.

@aaronarguelles8322 Год назад

Quinn is pumping out these amazing videos consistently now. LOVE IT!

@BillNyeTheBountyGuy Год назад

Quinn is really hustling with this uploads, it's noted and appreciated!

@Ericthefilo Год назад

really enjoying your videos about these books, gives me new stuff to add to my 'to-read' list

@existentialnihil Год назад

Please do more videos! always truly makes my day when I get to watch them!

@CulturePoppa Год назад

This is a must-watch channel for me every time Q drops something new!

@RubyDianArts Год назад

Have you ever read the novel or watched the anime series "From The New World"/Shin Sekai Yori? (Don't read the manga.) It has a really intriguing set of human evolution and genetic manipulation on psychic humans going to hundreds of years into the future. In it, due to terrible wars that brought down the modern world using psychic humans, humans with psychic powers were genetically manipulated to carry a gene that would cause them to "die of shame" if they ever killed a fellow human. However, that causes dire consequences when one is raised among beings who are not human.

@peasant8246 Год назад

You awoke my PTSD from that anime. D:

@rasputin924 Год назад

Is the manga bad or what's the problem? I genuinely don't know.

@peasant8246 Год назад

@@rasputin924 No, its quite good I would say. It just can be disturbing, sometimes.

@rickwrites2612 Год назад

Why the dire consequences? Is it because the gene actually just works to stop you from killi g those you are raised among, so they DO kill other humans when they finally see them? Or because the gene only stops them from killing humans, theg wind up killing the beings who raised them?

@eacalvert Год назад

Love your videos as always but especially love hearing about books I didn't know about. Time to see if my library has it!

@brycelynch2138 Год назад

3:57 - I love how you took the photograph of the Theseus lamp somebody made and used it.

@NorthChaos Год назад

I really enjoy your videos! It's become somewhat an event whenever I see a notification, I know I'm in for a treat!

@griffynkennedy1293 Год назад

Amazing video, and it was uploaded mere minutes after I finished the book. Great work!

@seancampbell1077 Год назад

Great video! Your Blindsight and Echopraxia videos are so damned good.

@alexandergonsalves202 Год назад

Great video as always quinn. Any plans to dig into echopraxia? Id love to see your takes on the book! Honestly there's nothing I love more after a long day of work than having a schmoke and watching your vids. Keep it coming!!!

@TheCynicsCynic Год назад

Cool to see you make a video on Blindsight. Peter Watts is one of my favorite authors.

@chantelhoosier3547 Год назад

This is one of the best youtube channels I've stumbled upon. I've got to read all the books now. Thank you so much😊

@JohnBoen Год назад

Very well done! Looking forward to hearing more of you.

@staslifshitz9918 Год назад

Thank you so much for covering this novel. I loved it and thought it was unique in it's outlook and the real attempt to base everything in science. Almost no one I know read it and to see a video on it made me really happy. Thank you!

@fatsacktony1 Год назад

Glad to see you're continuing your work Quinn. Rare talent.

@barrybend7189 Год назад

You'll love Battle Angel Alita's take on Vampires. They are an aberant mutation that can be passed on. In a world where cyborgs and biological monstrosities are made having something familiar yet also still unknown is fun to read up on. The vampire character in question is also one of Dracula's wives from Bran Stoker's Dracula.

@snarkdragon Год назад

You must be referring to Caerula, the vampire Alita meets during the Zenith Of Things Tournament. At least, I think it was the ZOTT. Caerula was fighting on behalf of the Stellar Nursery, if I remember correctly.

@barrybend7189 Год назад

@@snarkdragon yes. Her whole substory within that arc was really well written.

@HexxuSz Год назад

i love this channel, always come around after reading some cool stuff to see if quinn has stuff on it

@ThePerfectBiscuits 6 месяцев назад

I love falling asleep to your videos. I wish I had the money to help out more but I like every video and have started commenting; it’s the most I can do for you brother. Please keep up the good work and thank you for the sound sleep.

@athenathemself 8 месяцев назад

Quinn you are the best. I am always swingin by your channel to get sci-fi titles and I wouldn't have known about this book without you!

@aurora_occidentalis2248 Год назад

Read Blindsight years ago. Such a pleasant surprise to find your thoughtful and well-crafted review. Thank you.

@immortaljanus Год назад

Another great video on a great book. Hope the next one is about the insane customization of human brains that characters in Blindsight possess.

@jamjohnson2023 Год назад

Hey Quinn in one of your previous videos I saw that you had two books in the shadow of the torturer series. I was curious to see if you would ever do a video on them. They are some of my favorite books ever, but as far as I can tell nearly no one knows or talks about them. Thanks man.

@johnnyzli Год назад

love your videos about sfi fi books ,we need more so i know what is worth to read

@ecbrown6151 Год назад

Just finished this yesterday on your recommendation! Great book, a chilling piece of hard sci-fi. I’m looking forward to the 1.5 book and the sequel.

@metoo3342 Год назад

Echopraxia was a little harder to follow for me than blindsight

@lawyeroutlaw Год назад

Where do you get your general artwork you use when you narrate? So much of it is so good, dark, or awesomely creepy!

@Steelnose19 Год назад

Thank you for all the videos recently 🙏

@chaossedated Год назад

Great video on such an intriguing subplot to one of my favorite books

@Minotaur-ey2lg Год назад

Stoked you’re doing videos on one of the finest, but least known, modern science fiction writers.

@fabiograziani8869 Год назад

This Channel is getting better and better!

@jerrysstories711 Год назад

I've read this and I've talked to dozens of big fans of this book. The funny thing is, they go on and on about the very cool concepts in it like the vampire subspecies and 'intelligence without awareness', but they can BARELY remember the plot at all beyond "they found this space vessel that was intelligent but not aware and... umm...umm..." This is my issue with a lot of scifi, the foreground story is sometimes so much less interesting than the few hints dropped about the background story.

@wingracer1614 Год назад

That's why I personally don't care for the book. Yes there are some interesting concepts in the book but none of them really go anywhere. The super fans love to say "you're just too dumb to get it." No, I understand it just fine, I just don't care.

@jerrysstories711 Год назад

@@wingracer1614 I have some friends who were just bananas about "The Life Aquatic" for no reason I could discern. They thought it was the deepest movie ever and insisted that I just didn't get, that most people just don't get it. It took me a couple of years to realize they were so amazed by it because it was the first time they've ever understood symbolism. Funny, isn't it, how they always conclude "you're too dumb to get it" and never "you're too smart to be impressed with it". ;-)

@jbtechcon7434 Год назад

I haven't read this book, but I totally get your frustration with tedious plots that hint at a more interesting background story. The Uplift series began with a stupid mystery whodunit, literally a bunch of characters on a ship and someone got murdered and they had to figure out who while the killer was among them. HOW TRITE! And then the second book was nothing but a long chase scene, with just a few little hints sprinkled in about the backstory I actually cared about. I felt like I was reading filler. I read the Wikipedia summary of the rest of the series and found it WAY more interesting than the books.

@wingracer1614 Год назад

@@jbtechcon7434 It's been a LONG time since I read them but if I remember correctly, they get better as they go. From what I recall, the first two were just barely interesting enough to get me to keep reading and I finally started to really like them around the 3rd or 4th.

@thomasjoychild4962 Год назад

The plot definitely DOES involve the characters repeatedly breaking into the alien ship, getting readings and samples, then going back to their ship to analyse things and talk about the results. There is more that starts happening when the aliens start to respond to being repeatedly broken into, but yeah it's a lot of data gathering and discussion.

@asdf9890 Год назад

I’m not much of a reader, but love your descriptions and explanations of amazing books I would otherwise go ignorant of. I love this reimagined vampire lore, it seems well thought out and even plausible.

@orangepeel5103 Год назад

Read blindsight thanks to this video. It was a great book. Keep up the good content!

@biocapsule7311 Год назад

The thing with vampire stories (supernatural or otherwise) is that I never like the assumption that vampires must be 'sociopaths'. Especially if the criteria for sustenance and survival is just the contents of blood and not the taking of lives. Consider Mosquito, if you take away the annoyance of their bite and the spreading of disease, they are really one of the few lifeforms that don't take the lives of other lifeforms to survive. It always come across as something necessitate by the sources of sustenance being reasonability combative to being feed upon, than a natural inborn instinct for malice.

@freeman1785 Год назад

This actually sounds like it would be a good movie one day

@robertsimpson7424 Год назад

Finished an audiobook of Blind Sight today. One hell of a recommendation, very trippy at times.

@orlandocantu7806 Год назад

Love your channel, because of you I have read the Three Body Problem ( which was fantastic!), and am now reading Blindsight. Without you I would never have explored Sci-Fi outside the classics, Thank You

@jessedark9580 Год назад

Great content ❤️ Love these stuff

@igodreamer7096 Год назад

Very intriguing. The explanation about the vampires like a subspecies of Homo Sapiens is fantastic!

@jlntvgt Год назад

Love your videos Quinn, you have a such a great voice. Have you narrated any audio books? I would definitely listen to an audio book narrated by you?

@andrewd4723 Год назад

Hey Quinn, awesome video! I think there isa series you would enjoy called "Sun Eater Chronicles". A young lord in a galactic human empire strives against the first human predators to grace the stars

@dangbar200 Год назад

He wrote one of my favorite sci fi novels, Starfish. Such an amazing author.

@scottabc72 Год назад

I loved this book and found it more than a little disturbing (but that was more to do with the consciousness issue). However my first impression when starting the book was negative. The human crew seemed at first generic 'mix of quirky space badasses' thats been so popular since 'Aliens' and when one crew member was described as a vampire, I just rolled my eyes 'someone should tell this guy vampires arent trendy anymore' But the atmosphere and building tension drew me in and anything that can turn an unfair bad first impression around has to be very good.

@donventura2116 Год назад

At first I didn't like the crew either. almost for the exact same reasons. However, once Siri's story and memories were developed, it became clear to me that all of their augmentations and their drawbacks were an intentional choice to highlight how they had lost a part of their humanity and it contrasted with Siri who was slowly regaining his empathy. Lots of themes and interpretations to pull from how characters relate to each other and their technology. I think that's what takes it from a cool first contact story to a great sci fi that explores the relationship of humanity and technology.

@scottabc72 Год назад

@@donventura2116 Yes, great points!

@mediumsoftdrink2866 Год назад

@@donventura2116 Yes exactly! As Siri said himself, here at the edge of interstellar space, thanks to a boatload of freaks, 𝘐'𝘮 𝘏𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯. These aren't just quirky space badasses, they are specifically chosen "people" with legitimate biological augmentations that significantly impact their psychological activity. That make them just as alien as the 'thing' they are going to meet. And even the vampires played a very integral part of the overall thematic representation of sentience, and how it may not be what we think it is exactly. I just absolutely love the rollercoaster that Watts sends you on. It's funny when you first mention to new people how a space vampire is the mission commander of a teleported-anti-matter-propelled spacecraft with the directive of finding new intelligent life in interstellar space. I am now EAGER to tell anybody I know about just how cool a "𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺-𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘷𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘦" would look like lol.

@tehdii 6 месяцев назад

A week ago I have discovered Blindsight, I am now in the middle of Echo. BS has this fascinating atmosphere, reminiscent, not by mistake I gather, to The Thing film. I was glad that the book didn't turned out to be flat. It has layers, mental chess in a way. It is a joy to read for the first time. Sometimes poetic language mixed with Lem like technical jargon and overall freshness of well grounded ideas that are not that far away from today science makes this book a pleasure to read. It is not a quantum something because nowadays everyone do quantum. Freshness comes from well thought and well implemented and mixed ideas that are "currently" circulating in the technical press. And the rock vampire riff on the somewhat hackneyed or no longer containing much of originality first contact theme is such a delicious cherry on the spaceship ;)

@loununez5544 Год назад

Oh man, I'm happy you did a video on a Peter Watts book. I highly suggest his Rifters series!

@anarquirains2829 Год назад

Omg you did one of my reccomends! You're the best

@fizzyheart2486 Год назад

Dude, awesome book recomendation. You sold me on this one.

@parallax_6162 Год назад

There is a good short fan film in RU-vid of blindsight, well worth a watch

@fappingfoopa Год назад

Nice, beautiful video very thought-provoking and intriguing. I was able to finish this whole video before my bus came

@lud_boltz6674 Год назад

Quinn, you are an absolute godsend. You got me into three body after I watched a ton of dune videos you had. Im going to start reading this now. Also I think youd make an amazing narrator for audiobooks. I wish you nothing but success in everything you do ❤

@askani21 Год назад

Please Quinn, do a video on the zombies next! In Echopraxia, the implications of the existence of zombies are truly terrifying, and also linked to the greater theme of Firefall as a whole, consciousness - and its absence.