Most autonomy diagrams lie in the same way. They put one box in the middle and make everything point to it. Planner. Controller. Agent. Brain. That box is comforting. It gives the system a protagonist. Sensors report to it. Modules serve it. Logs explain it. The architecture becomes easy to draw and easy to pitch. It is also often the wrong metaphor. Peter Watts' Blindsight is useful to engineers because it breaks that metaphor. The book is not about software architecture, but its central question lands hard in software: what if intelligence does not require a central conscious narrator? For multi-agent systems, that is not philosophy as decoration. It is a design constraint. The public STRIX context STRIX is my Rust + Python research platform for resilient multi-agent coordination: state estimation and prediction; task allocation; mesh coordination; safety and policy gates; simulation; explainable decision traces; deterministic replay. The public repo is intentionally conservative. It is simulator-first.…