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a mind seed, a string of instruction codes like a digital genome.
ten thousand pattern-recognizing monomaniacs staring into the information stream, constantly alert for their own special targets.
None of the polises’ founders had chosen to build predetermined stabilizing mechanisms into their basic designs, though, lest the entire species ossify into tribes of self-perpetuating monomaniacs, parasitized by a handful of memes.