Shoutout to the book club member who insisted we read that weird sci-fi book about sentient algae

Our group in Austin picked 'The Bloom of Deep Green' for last month. I saw the cover and the summary and was fully ready to hate it. A whole novel where the main characters are basically intelligent pond scum? Sounded pretentious and boring. But this one lady, Sarah, would not stop talking about how it changed her view on consciousness. She convinced everyone. I read it just to have something to argue about. Finished it in two days. The way the author wrote from a completely non-human perspective... it was actually incredible. I went from rolling my eyes to leading half the discussion. Has a book you were totally against ever completely won you over?

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david_fisher371d ago

That "completely non-human perspective" thing is what got me too. It makes you question what a thought even looks like without a brain.

val_chen161d ago

But that's just giving up on the idea of thought itself. If it needs a brain, then we're saying only meat can think. Maybe a "non-human perspective" is just a mirror showing us how limited our own idea of thinking really is.