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. Colonel, I
don't think any human brain or brains could possibly have written the programs
that Holmes IV self-programmed to let him handle all the details of that
revolution. My older daughter, Deety, is a top specialist in programming; she
says a human brain could not do it and that, in her opinion, an artificial
intelligence could swing it only the way Holmes IV did it-by being faced with
the necessity, a case of 'Root, Hog, or Die.' So we need Adam Selene-or his
essence, those programs he wrote in creating himself. Because we don't know how
to do it."
Hazel glanced at the pool. "I'll bet Deety could do it. If she had to."
"Thank you, dear, on behalf of my daughter. But she is not given to false
modesty. If Deety could do it, or thought she had even a slim chance, she would
be hacking away at it now. As it is, she's doing what she can; she is working
hard at tying together the computer bank we have."
"Jacob, I hate to say this-" Hazel hesitated. "Maybe I shouldn't."
"Then don't." "I need to get it off my chest. Papa Mannie isn't optimistic
over the results even if we are totally successful in retrieving all the memory
banks and programs that constitute the essential Adam Selene-or 'Mike' as Papa
Mannie calls him. He thinks his old friend was hurt so badly in the last
attack-I remember it to this day; it was dreadful-Mike was hurt so badly that he
withdrew into a computer catatonia and will never wake up
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