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- I blinked my primate eyes and flexed my thick, powerful fingers. I felt . . . human. Like I was a four-foot-tall, almost two-hundred-pound, heavily muscled human.
- And the mind? It was not exactly human, but it was similar. The same threads of curiosity, understanding, and emotion woven into a complex map. It was nothing like the single-minded hunger instinct of the shark, or the blind rush of sensory input that characterized the bat, for example.
- Sentient? Self-aware? Able to hold abstract thoughts in its head?
- Impossible to be sure. In morphing we acquire instinct, but instinct is less important when intelligence is more developed.
- This mind had very little in the way of instinct. And I sensed a great deal in the way of intelligence.
- The chimpanzee would be able to understand that when the cage was locked, it would not be able to escape. The chimpanzee would understand that scratching its head repeatedly would not open the door, but it would make it feel better.
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