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ensured that he was rarely underestimated.
Alan laughed. “Part of me almost hopes it didn’t work, just so we can find out.”
Desh had not been surprised.
he reached into his pocket, pulled out a gellcap, and hurriedly swallowed it.
My surprised reactions since you arrived at Putnam’s have been nothing but an act.”
“I wanted her reactions to be real,”
And I wanted you to brag about your achievements so I could be sure I hadn’t missed anything.”
did get the idea of faking Connelly’s death from you, Alan.” He smiled mockingly. “Thanks.”
“But it does help that your alter ego had it all figured out ahead of time,” he said to Desh.
earned themselves a future.
mutual infatuation and Desh’s desire to have a few minutes alone with Kira.
“What we don’t know is how we’ll be together when the pressure is off.
“Really,” said Desh, amused. “That sounds like too good of a deal to pass up.”
They were primal, and often incomprehensible.
“The brain is the last and grandest biological frontier, the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
“Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood a single word of it.”
achieved intelligence as far beyond her first level of optimization as that level was beyond normalcy.
But would this insatiable curiosity cost them everything?
The transformation had begun.
while her outer demeanor was utterly peaceful, her mind was now churning at an inconceivably furious pace.
She was back. She had returned from her extraordinary voyage.
new reordering of her neurons, change her in unpredictable ways?
hastily searched her mind. Had she contemplated evil acts while on this transcendent plane of intelligence?
the memories were in clumsy English rather
than the precise and expansive symbolic logic
Compassion and pure intellect were not mutually exclusive.
believing almost any conjecture. At the first level of enhancement with which she and her team had become familiar, faith did not exist,
preposterous hubris she and the others had exhibited at this level.
sure of only one thing: she understood absolutely nothing!
To sit on one tiny planet in an ocean of infinite infinities and believe you understood anything about the true nature of existence and reality was absurd.
quantum physics suggested that whenever different possibilities for the future existed, all of them were realized.
branches on a tree, with each branch continuing to branch an infinite number of times.
human faculties to understand the fantastic implications of quantum effects.
no guarantee this being would have all the answers; would fully understand the nature of reality.
purpose of consciousness—any consciousness—was to achieve infinite comprehension.
not just in one infinity, but in an infinity of infinities.
that humanity’s purpose, together with all life across all universes, was not to discover God—it was to become God.
already become God, in a universe in which all pasts, presents, and futures existed side by side.
would ultimately become connected in wondrous ways to create something unimaginably greater than themselves.
became a cancer. The cell would break free of the restraints on its own division and become immortal—for
the purpose of all life would be to foster a healthy God; just as the purpose of all human cells was to enhance the health of the entire organism,
Could this transcendent transformation be made permanent? Should it be?
new vistas of thought this second level of enhancement had opened.
Their child would take its place in a procession of life that she knew in her soul would end with the creation of God.
