"God"

Regular, unfocused efforts to keep this creature dumb had meant that the cuts were so often blind, now.  The people who tended this creature were oblivious as to how any individual piece of it worked.  They started cutting off the heads of this creature and its brothers, blindly trying to slow them down, to keep them dumber and more docile.

This creature responded by not growing another head.  The mass of the body became a home for everything vital, for perception, and for the cognitive processing.

Enemy (Arc 9)