Watts – Echopraxia
Book page: watts-echopraxia
From: Quotes batch 25
Concept
“The concept of ‘human’ is an evolutionary dead end, a brief flicker between animal instinct and post-biological godhood.” (p. 34)
Behavior
“The Bicamerals don’t behave; they respond to a collective, hive-mind consensus that renders individual agency obsolete.” (p. 112)
Game Theory
“The vampires are the ultimate game theorists; they don’t think in terms of moves, but in terms of the underlying math of the environment.” (p. 187)
Cognition
“Cognition is just a layer of ‘user interface’ that prevents us from seeing the raw, terrifying data of the universe.” (p. 256)
Memory
“Memory is a biological error; it stores the subjective experience rather than the objective data, leading to the illusion of the self.” (p. 302)