THE COSMIC COMPUTER

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somewhere on Poictesme, or in the Alpha System."

"Well, do you think it would be a good thing to find it?"[Pg 28]

That surprised him. Everybody knew it would be, and his mother didn't
share his father's attitude about things everybody knew. She hadn't any
business questioning a fundamental postulate like that.

"It frightens me," she continued. "I don't even like to think about it.
A soulless intelligence; it seems evil to me."

"Well, of course it's soulless. It's a machine, isn't it? An aircar's
soulless, but you're not afraid to ride in one."

"But this is different. A machine that can think. Conn, people weren't
mean to make machines like that, wiser than they are."