Blindsight : Non-Conscious Minds

Blindsight (Peter Watts) explores the idea of non-conscious intelligence and in the process delivers one of the best examples of cosmic horror I’ve read in a very long time. It’s a story with implications for AI and how we perceive the world around us. Also, there are vampires.

Most of the B-roll is from a Blindsight short film made by Danil Krivoruchko, that you can watch here: https://blindsight.space/

The Journal of Neuroscience article referenced is here:
https://www.jneurosci.org/content/40/35/6801
I’m certainly no neuroscientist, but the broad strokes are clear enough.

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00:00 Intro
01:47 Informational Topologies
02:56 Non-Conscious Intelligence
04:42 Chinese Room
06:37 Sapience Gradient and Zombies
08:30 Vampires
10:13 Cosmic Horror
13:00 AI Dangers
14:05 Long Road Home