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. If true,
it can't be proved.
I am aware of my own self-awareness ... and that is as far as any honest
solipsist should go. "Gwen-Hazel, I don't know."
"Good! We're making progress."
"We are?"
"Yes, Richard. The hardest part about gaining any new idea is sweeping out
the false idea occupying that niche. As long as that niche is occupied, evidence
and proof and logical demonstration get nowhere. But once the niche is emptied
of the wrong idea that has been filling it-once you can honestly say, 'I don't
know,' then it becomes possible to get at the truth."
"Hon, you are not only the cutest little figment I've ever imagined, you
are also the smartest."
"Knock it off, buster. Listen to this theory. And think of it as a working
hypothesis, not as God-given truth. It was dreamed up by my adoptive father.
Papa Mannie, to account for the observed fact that this computer had come to
life. Maybe it explains something, maybe it doesn't-Mama Wyoh said that Papa
Mannie was never sure. Now attend me- A fertilized human ovum divides... and
divides again. And again. And again and again and again. Somewhere along there-I
don't know where-this collection of millions of living cells becomes aware of
itself and the world around it."
She went on: "A fertilized egg is not aware but a baby is. After Papa
Mannie discovered that his computer was self-aware, he noted that this computer,
which had been expanded outrageously as more jobs were assigned to it, had
reached a point of complication where it had more interconnections in it than
has a human brain
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