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“But pattern-matching doesn't equal comprehension.”
Peter Watts, Blindsight

“If believing absurd falsehoods increase the odds of getting laid or avoiding predators, your brain will believe those falsehoods with all its metaphorical little heart.”
Peter Watts

“Brains are survival engines, not truth detectors.”
Peter Watts, Blindsight
tags: brain

“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. All that matters is whether it beats the alternative.”
Peter Watts, Blindsight

“People aren't rational. We're not thinking machines, we're - we're feeling machines that happen to think.”
Peter Watts, Blindsight

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