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Blindsight is a hard science fiction novel by Canadian writer Peter Watts, published by Tor Books in 2006. It won the Seiun Award for the best novel in Japanese translation and was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel, the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, and the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. The story follows a crew of astronauts sent to investigate a trans-Neptunian comet dubbed "Burns-Caulfield" that has been found to be transmitting an unidentified radio signal, followed by their subsequent first contact. The novel explores themes of identity, consciousness, free will, artificial intelligence, neurology, and game theory as well as evolution and biology.

分数的构成

各来源在 785 条评分上的均值是 7.8。数量到了这个级别，读者票占权重的 81%，分数就停在 7.8——恐怖的均值 7.8 几乎拉不动它。

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Hardcover 上获赞最多的书评（注明作者）。

• EN

  “This book uses the ‘first contact' genre (one of my favorites) with a totally opaque alien phenomenon to explore the themes of how opaque we are to ourselves and to others – and the price we pay as a result (other favorite themes of mine). There are downsides: it's dark, and features some bullshit sociobiology. Overall, though, I loved it.”

  ★ 5/5Hardcover 用户 Alex_Golub

• EN

  “Peter Watts wrote Blindsight in 2006, but it reads like a white paper for 2026. This is a clinical exploration, disguised as an alien first contact story, with the idea that intelligence does not require consciousness. The book posits that self-awareness is not a gift but an evolutionary bottleneck that wastes energy and slows down processing. In our current landscape of LLMs and autonomous agents, the foresight here is remarkable. We are increasingly surrounded by entities that solve complex problems without having any internal understanding of what they are doing. The story treats humanity …”

  ★ 5/5Hardcover 用户 jasperketone

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