Notes on 'Echopraxia' (2014) by Peter Watts (b. 1958)
Set in 2096, some 15 years after the events of Blindsight (2006), Echopraxia is the second book in Peter Watts’ ongoing Blindsight series (2006-2014?). It paints a bleak picture of humanity on the verge of falling apart from under the pressures of posthumanist experiments, and it continues to investigate the nature and evolutionary purpose of consciousness, both human and alien.