Blindsight

The main topic of this book rests on something that has interested me for a bit: the fact that we can’t verify another person’s consciousness. For most people, it is mostly obvious that we ourselves have consciousness, but it isn’t something easily verifiable in others. We can feel like others are conscious, but that is mostly a feeling and not a truth we can verify. Hence the hard problem of consciousness.

The approach the book takes to explore this concept is adjacent to horror. I might call it cosmic horror. It wasn’t exactly scary, but there were definitely moments of building suspense and the like. Personally, I’m more interested in the science fiction than horror aspects, but it’s a deserved horror.

This is one of those reads where I kinda had to push through the first bit to get to the gripping parts.