“Suppose,” said Zeus, “suppose I were to start a new race.” “In the Pythian Games?” “No, not a running race. A race as in a species. A new order of beings. Like us in every particular, upright, on two legs—” “One head?” “One head. Two hands. Resembling us in every particular, and they would have—you’re the intellectual, Prometheus, what’s the name for that aspect of us that raises us above the animals?” “Our hands?” “No, the part that tells us that we exist, that makes us aware of ourselves?” “Consciousness.” “That’s the one. These creatures would have consciousness. And language. They
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