while waiting for Echopraxia in the mail, let me ask you about this quote from Blindsight:
Your circuitry hums with strategies for survival and persistence, flexible, intelligent, even technological—but no other circuitry monitors it. You can think of anything, yet are conscious of nothing.
As far as I can tell, monitoring would include any form of error-correction that is not triggered by feedback from the environment. So a response from outside the system saying "no, you fucked that up" prompting changes in strategy would not count as "monitoring", but anything based on modeling the process itself, independent of outside cues, would be "monitoring". How had you envisioned the word?
Also, how plausible do you think it is really that a species could evolve to the level of Scramblers without monitoring/consciousness?
Huge fan of your work, I have repeatedly described Blindsight to my friends as "the best SF novel of the 21st century"
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while waiting for Echopraxia in the mail, let me ask you about this quote from Blindsight:
As far as I can tell, monitoring would include any form of error-correction that is not triggered by feedback from the environment. So a response from outside the system saying "no, you fucked that up" prompting changes in strategy would not count as "monitoring", but anything based on modeling the process itself, independent of outside cues, would be "monitoring". How had you envisioned the word?
Also, how plausible do you think it is really that a species could evolve to the level of Scramblers without monitoring/consciousness?
Huge fan of your work, I have repeatedly described Blindsight to my friends as "the best SF novel of the 21st century"
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