the Culture had placed its bets-long before the Idiran war had been envisaged-on the machine rather than the human brain. This was because the Culture saw itself as being a self-consciously rational society; and machines, even sentient ones, were more capable of achieving this desired state as well as more efficient at using it once they had. That was good enough for the Culture.
( Iain M. Banks )
[ Consider Phlebas ]
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