That contraption -- listen, Brother, they claim it thinks. I didn't believe it at first. Thought, implying rational principle, implying soul. Can the principle of a 'thinking machine' -- man-made -- be a rational soul? Bah! It seemed a thoroughly pagan notion at first. But do you know what?""Father?""Nothing could be that perverse without premeditation! It must think! It knows good and evil, I tell you, and it chose the latter.
-Walter M. Miller Jr.
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