Description

This is part 1 of our final episode of the season! Stephen talks with Peter Watts, author of Blindsight and Echopraxia (and much more), about UFOs, his influences, and the functional utility of consciousness.

This episode contains spoilers for Blindsight.

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Works & artists mentioned

• Star Trek: The Original Series
• The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
• Neuropath by Scott Bakker
• Larry Niven 
• Ray Bradbury
• Solaris by Stanislav Lem 
• Solaris (1972; dir. Andrei Tarkovsky)
• Solaris (2002; dir. Steven Soderberg)
• The Creator (2023)
• Charles Stross
• Richard Dawkins (sorry, Janet couldn't find the work mentioned)
• Alien movie series

Host: Stephen Geraghty
Producer: Janet Mowat

This episode was recorded in the spring of 2024.