I am reading Blindsight from a nook so the page number may be different. This is towards the end of part 2. Sarasti says this to Siri when he is going to send Siri back.
I thought this was an important quote to examine because I felt like this was how everyone felt throughout the entire novel. As they examine Rorschach, they come up with several theories about its’ level of intelligence and try to come up with answers to the hallucinations. First they questions how they communicate and think Rorschach might be a Chinese room. When they capture one of the scramblers, they don’t find a brain or DNA so they don’t think they are intelligent. It really reminded me of The Thing and how McReady and his gang tried to put human logic to it. But out of all of their theories, they fail to understand it at first. It takes them awhile to learn that the scramblers can move when human vision can’t see it. They also think that Rorschach may be able to manipulate them in a way that they still feel in control of their actions. They lack the agency they thought they had, and so they really don’t know what they are doing.
The fact that Sarasti says this makes it so much more provoking. Throughout the entire novel, the others believe he is in such control. They believe that he when everyone believes he is in control and know exactly what is going on makes it so much more provoking.