Blindsight, Peter Watts - Review

"Metaprocesses bloom like cancer, and awaken, and call themselves I."

Blindsight was thought-provoking. The actual question it gets at does not make a real appearance until the latter half of the book, and it is a good one: *Is consciousness necessary for intelligence? Why do we have it, if not?"

I wasn't as huge of a fan of Watts' writing style - I found it rather flashy and severe - and think the novel could have been shorter. Great portrayal of the possible alienness of aliens, though. Superintelligence, whatever it is or will be, is not a monolith.