“If you were capable of thinking of an object from more than one point of view, you could imagine it doing all sorts of things. For Mother, consciousness was becoming more than just a tool for lying.”

—  Stephen Baxter, book Evolution

Source: Evolution (2002), Chapter 11 “Mother’s People” section I (p. 337)

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