“As far as anyone could tell, Portia had learned to partition its cognitive processes: almost as if it were emulating a larger brain piece by piece, saving the results of one module to feed into the next. Slices of intellect, built and demolished one after another. No one would ever know for sure – a rogue synthophage had taken out the world’s Salticids before anyone had gotten around to taking a closer look – but the Icarus slime mold seemed to have taken the same basic idea and run with it.”
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