Watts: Echopraxia

Summary: Echopraxia by Watts . (Stub — expand from highlights.)

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Last updated: 2026-05-07

Quotes

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)