“I do not pretend to understand how gears and levers can bring forth consciousness, sir, but it certainly appears that somehow they have.”

—  David D. Levine, book Arabella of Mars

Source: Arabella of Mars (2016), Chapter 20, “Khema” (p. 290)

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