Humankind discovers intelligent life in an octopus species with its own language and culture, and sets off a high-stakes global competition to dominate the future. And that feeling had followed him. He had been glad to leave the archipelago. But leaving wasn’t enough—the feeling returned every time he thought of the ocean. We are shaped and limited by our skeletons. Jointed, defined, structured. We create a world of relationships that mirrors that shape: a world of rigid boundaries and binaries. A world of control and response, master and servant. In our world, as in our nervous systems, hierarchy rules. For fans of Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt and The Soul of an Octopus; a surprising exploration into the wonder of consciousness by Sy Montgomery. Empiezan a difundirse rumores sobre una especie de pulpos peligrosa y extraordinariamente inteligente que podría haber desarrollado un lenguaje y una cultura propios.

With a thriller heart and a sci-fi head, The Mountain in the Sea delivers a spooky, smart read. Artificial intelligence, nascent animal sentience, murderous flying drones: like the best of Gibson or Atwood, it brings all of the plot without forgetting the bigger questions of consciousness, ecocide, and scientific progress. Truly a one-of-a-kind story.” Obviously Nayler did not write the book with this in mind, just like those ‘eerily prescient’ Covid-19 novels rode a populist wave. But if you want a great fictional exploration of the issues facing the world now in terms of technological and social disruption, this is the novel for you. It didn’t matter. Maybe she was from DIANIMA, maybe she was from a rival company. The HCMATZ crawled with corporate spies, international conspiracies. The woman made an adjustment. The abglanz settled to a bland construct of a female face. Lawrence could make out the faint outline of her real face, drifting below the surface. The octopuses hold the key to unprecedented breakthroughs in extrahuman intelligence. The stakes are high: there are vast fortunes to be made by whoever can take advantage of the octopuses' advancements, and as Dr. Nguyen struggles to communicate with the newly discovered species, forces larger than DIANIMA close in to seize the octopuses for themselves.Sabía en parte de lo que son capaces los pulpos unos seres increíbles que muchos no sabréis que son uno de los seres más inteligentes y llenos de recursos del mundo. Con una capacidad de camuflaje que deja pasmado. It might seem that I didn't like the book with all the complaints above, but I did. I love octopuses, they are fascinating, and I do think their inteligence is not far from how it was described here. The characters are well developed, and I couldn't help but root for all involved. First off, I don’t think this is science fiction. It reads like fantasy. The “science” is basically all faux blabbering about AI and ridiculous tech, to an extent that I can’t even tell which parts of the blabbering relating to octopus intelligence are actually real science. Which is a shame, because octopuses are awesome in real life too. The octopuses hold the key to unprecedented breakthroughs in extrahuman intelligence. As Dr. Nguyen struggles to communicate with the newly discovered species, forces larger than DIANIMA close in to seize the octopuses for themselves. Again, another book whose blurb is innacurate. This was not a thriller, and definitely humans have no idea about what breakthroughs octopuses might hold.

Con estos ingredientes y otros cuantos más, tenemos una trama bien armada y con una crítica a la condición humana y su despiadado camino en el avance tecnológico y el uso de la IA, las grandes empresas enfocadas exclusivamente en los beneficios, el perfil de las personas en una sociedad tecnológica, que cada vez son más solitarias y necesitadas de tecnología a su medida, etc Humankind discovers intelligent life in an octopus species with its own language and culture, and sets off a high-stakes global competition to dominate the future.“ También hay algunos paralelismos fascinantes con aspectos como la forma en que el operador de drones, Altantsetseg, un curioso personaje usa su flota de drones, pasando por la forma en que la corporación opera en comparación con la propia inteligencia del pulpo.Plus, endless faux science monologues. Sometimes monologues about feelings thrown in for a change, which unfortunately still doesn’t make it any better. Este es el tipo de ciencia ficción que a mí me gusta. Nada de naves espaciales y luchas interestelares. Sino una sociedad muy avanzada tecnológicamente en nuestra Tierra, en un futuro no muy lejano y "creíble", aunque quizá no muy deseable y más bien aterradora. Trata preguntas muy interesantes. Qué es la conciencia, qué significa ser humano. Qué le debemos los humanos a otras formas de vida.. Mientras Ha y sus compañeros investigadores trabajan para comprender a estos pulpos, se vuelven temerosos por la pequeña población cuando Dianima y el mundo descubren su existencia. Los rumores sobre este libro son ciertos. Creo que todo lector de CF podría disfrutar de este libro. Tiene muchos ingredientes para dejar más que satisfecho.

Because humanity, while being interested in being a creator, could never handle sharing the #1 place with anyone or anything else. Me parece fascinante la inmersión del autor en las IA. Por no hablar de los pulpos que es lo que más me ha gustado. Al inicio de cada capítulo tenemos un extracto de las investigaciones realizadas anteriormente por las dos doctoras. Concretamente de " Cómo piensan los océanos", de la Doctora Ha y "Edificando mentes", de la Doctora Arnkatla.I got him up to the surface. Son insisted on resuscitation. But I knew he was dead. He was dead when I found him.” The plot layer revolves around a marine biologist, Dr. Ha Nguyen, who agrees to study an octopus colony in the remote Vietnamese archipelago of Can Dao. She can't leave the place because it's owned by a big tech company that wants to monetize discovery and expects Ha to help them. Ha is too fascinated by the octopuses to leave, anyway. Impressed by their beauty and otherness, she tries to understand them and their "culture." She has an ally - Evrim, the world's first true android, who thinks like a human and believes it is conscious. No matter what you are looking for in a novel, The Mountain in the Sea is a real winner. You do not have to be a science-fiction fan to love it. The plot is gripping, with various groups in fierce competition as humans explore the nature of minds and consciousness and take actions that will be crucial to the future of humans and other life. The characters are fully developed; I believed in and cared about them. I sympathized with Ha Nguyen and her strong sense of responsibility for everything she is involved in. Readers also will feel for the autonomous AI Evrim, who has been exiled to the remote Con Dao Archipelago both to help with the work there and to protect him from violence taking place against AIs as possible competitors to homo sapiens. I mused at one point whether I had ever felt sorry for an AI before; I certainly ached for what Evrim experienced. Other supporting characters were also intriguing.

And one last, particularly feel-good quote that I’m tempted to stitch onto a pillow, replacing the one that reads LIVE LAUGH LOVE: Así pues, mientras la doctora Nguyen intenta comunicarse con la especie recién descubierta, entra en escena una facción más importante que Dianima para apoderarse de los pulpos. Sin embargo, nadie les ha preguntado a estas criaturas marinas qué opinan. Ni qué piensan hacer al respecto.. But this book isn't a dense, philosophical treatise. It's intensely tactile, too. It creates and lives within its own world. It draws you in. You can feel the rough corals, taste the salty spray, smell the coppery blood of many characters who come to some pretty rough ends. Not that the story isn't interesting, but I thought I'd be honest about the kind of sci-fi we're dealing with here. Also, there's a bit of time-switching between characters, so that may be disorienting, but I promise that the story manages to fit together decently. I want to help my readers imagine how we might speak across an almost unbridgeable gap of differences, and end forever the loneliness of our species—and our own loneliness.I enjoyed the story, but for me, this was not a book to zoom through. It reminds me of classic works from authors like Isaac Asimov and David Brin or David Walton's Three Laws Lethal. I kept stopping to muse about what was just said, and I am looking forward to recommending it to my science fiction book group so that I will have an excuse to read it again. More than that, though, on a meta-level, the author probably also put that in because of the age-old thought experiment of ANY species becoming murderous once crossing a certain threshold in their intelligence.