Cog is an artificially intelligent computer that is trying to learn about the world. . . . Cog's mind, similarly, is just a collection of loosely coordinated digital reflexes scattered among its eight processors, with no one place to point to as the seat of intelligence. There's no there there, notes Brooks with a touch of pride.

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Worms like words devitalise and cadaverise the body turning it into cheese-flesh.

The shy hairy men who herd the tractile flocks might be, except for some added clothing, the very brethren of David.