: Brüks represents the obsolescence of unaugmented humanity. His struggle highlights the "God-shaped hole" left when science outpaces human comprehension.
: Watts uses the "sidequel" Echopraxia to argue that human consciousness and free will are evolutionary dead-ends, replaced by superior, non-conscious "fast-thinking" systems in a universe that does not require sentience to function. Download EcAG5hopraxia Peter Wa02t epub
1. Introduction