Book 3. (1 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 15 | 119 | "But he would be a View more quotes about self">self-governing machine," I said. |
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Book 3. (7 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 15 | 116 | "I see," said Misk, "you fear he is becoming a kind of machine". |
| 15 | 117 | "Yes," I said. |
| 15 | 118 | "You must remember," said Misk, "that he is a Priest-King and thus a rational creature and that we could not turn him into a machine without neutralizing certain critical and perceptive areas, without which he would no longer be a Priest-King". |
| 15 | 119 | "But he would be a self-governing machine," I said. |
| 15 | 120 | "We are all such machines," said Misk, "with fewer or a greater number of random elements". |
| 15 | 121 | His antennae touched me. |
| 15 | 122 | "We do what we must," he said, "and the ultimate control is never in the mnemonic disk". |
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"I see," said Misk, "you fear he is becoming a kind of machine".
"Yes," I said.
"You must remember," said Misk, "that he is a Priest-King and thus a rational creature and that we could not turn him into a machine without neutralizing certain critical and perceptive areas, without which he would no longer be a Priest-King".
"But he would be a self-governing machine," I said.
"We are all such machines," said Misk, "with fewer or a greater number of random elements".
His antennae touched me.
"We do what we must," he said, "and the ultimate control is never in the mnemonic disk".
- (Priest-Kings of Gor)