Reddit mentions of Blindsight

Anyone who is interested in this must immediately read Blindsight by Peter Watts. Good science fiction novel which, among many other themes, deals with the idea of the Chinese Room and what it means for human consciousness.

Blindsight by Peter Watts. Easily one of the best scifi stories written in years. Hugo, Locus, and Campbell nominee.

Its available for free online too. Link

True. Many of those books are written by scientists. One of those recent what if's , and good at that is Blindsight by Peter Watts (marine biologist). Adding vampires into the story in hard SF way with nice biological reasoning behind it is just start :) One of my favorite first contact stories ever.

Yay! I just bought the kindle version and will start reading it immediately.

I'm absolutely fascinated with the prospect of machine intelligence: it moves us closer to answering the question of whether or not self-awareness is an inherent property of massive neural networks (of a particular design and complexity), or if awareness is the result of some other mechanism merely tied to the brain (say, feedback from the complex electrical field generated by the neurons as a separate entity, or some kind of quirk of quantum behavior at those scales not taken into account in current artificial models).

Then there's the secondary question: is it possible to have an intelligent mind that appears self-aware but is not self-aware, ala Blindsight.

Even better book about first contact : Blind Sight by Peter Watts

Peter Watts only one book, but what a book.