Blindsight Quotes

“The neurological condition of echopraxia is to autonomy as blindsight is to consciousness.”

“I don't understand how meat like you survived to adulthood.”

“Radar is too long in the tooth for fine detail.”

“Everything’s an act. Everything’s strategy.”

“Pack animals always tear apart the weaklings in their midst. Every child knows that much instinctively.”

“What’s the difference between being dead, and just not knowing you’re alive?”

“Brains are survival engines, not truth detectors.”

“But when the flash flood crosses your path, when the lion leaps at you from the grasses, advanced self-awareness is an unaffordable indulgence. The brain stem does its best.”

“The Zodiac had rearranged itself into a precise grid of bright points with luminous tails. It was as though the whole planet had been caught in some great closing net, the knots of its mesh aglow with St. Elmo's fire. It was beautiful. It was terrifying.”

“Perfection’s unattainable but it isn’t unapproachable.”