Watts uses this philosophical thought experiment to suggest that something can process information and communicate perfectly without actually "understanding" what it’s doing.
A linguist with four distinct personalities surgically partitioned into her brain to process complex alien languages. Blindsight by Peter Watts.epub
The story begins in 2082 when 65,000 alien probes simultaneously surround Earth, photograph it in a flash of fire, and then vanish. In response, humanity sends the starship Theseus to the edge of the solar system to find out who—or what—is watching. Watts uses this philosophical thought experiment to suggest
