Right? Speaker for the dead did not prepare me for some of his future works

I’ve been thinking about that kind of thing for a few years now, ever since I’ve read Blindsight from Peter Watts. It is weird indeed to kind of know that your whole conciusness is just a narrator, a story teller… retconning the narrative all the time to explain your own choices to you. Conciusness might indeed be maladaptive.

But then again, sometimes the story is just so beautiful it makes it all worth while.