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Comment by hyperpallium2

5 years ago

Vinge's line on this, from A Fire Upon the Deep:

This innocent's ego might end up smeared across a million death cubes, running a million million simulations of human nature.

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joshstrange  5 years ago

The idea of using brains as computers is even more-so investigated in the second book of that series "A Deepness in the Sky" with the "Focused". I love that whole series.

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