>“Ideas were not coming from me, they were just passing through my head,” one su... | Hacker News

Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit

		komali2 on April 23, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: MIT Researchers Have Developed a ‘System for Dream... >“Ideas were not coming from me, they were just passing through my head,” one subject reported. Is consciousness even real, man? Great books if you wanna chew on basically (for now) unanswerable questions: Peter Watts' "Blindsight" and "Echopraxia." Neal Stephenson's "Anathem."

orodley on April 24, 2018 [–]

Lots of Greg Egan's work deals with consciousness. For example, "Permutation City" is great.

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact