Hofstadter, Dennett - The Mind's I

Software 258truck drove off, its music silenced again. It was dusk now. The sound of the truck's motorfaded into the ocean's roar. If only it was true.But it had to be! Cobb was holding twenty-five thousand-dollar bi He countedthem twice to make sure. And then he scrawled the fig $25,000 in the sand and looked atit. That was a lot.As the darkness fell he finished the sherry and, on a sudden impulse put themoney in the bottle and buried it next to his tree in a me of sand. The excitement waswearing off now, and fear was setting Could the boppers really give him immortality withsurgery a interferon?It seemed unlikely. A trick. But why would the boppers lie to h`Surely they remembered all the good things he'd done for them. Maybe they just wantedto show him a good time. God knows he could use it And it would be great to see RalphNumbers again.Walking home along the beach, Cobb stopped several times tempted to go backand dig up that bottle to see if the money was real there. The moon was up, and he couldsee the little sand-colored crabs moving out of their holes. They could shred those billsright up, he though stopping again.Hunger growled in his stomach. And he wanted more sherry. H walked a littlefarther down the silvery beach, the sand squeaking un his heavy heels. It was bright asday, only all black and white. The moon had risen over the land to his right. Full moonmeans high tide, he fretted.He decided that as soon as he'd had a bite to eat he'd get more she' r and move themoney to higher ground.Coming up on his moon-silvered cottage from the beach he spott Annie Cushing'sleg around the corner of her cottage. She was sitting o her front steps, waiting to snag himin the driveway. He angled to ah right and came up on his house from behind, staying outof her line vision... 0110001," Wagstaff concluded."100101," Ralph Numbers replied curtly"0110000010101000101010100001001110010000000000110000000001110011111001110000000000000000010100011110000111111111010011101100010101100001111111111111111101101010101111011110000010100000000000000001111010011101101110111101001000100001000111110101000000111101010100111101010111100001100®01111000th' 11100111110111011111111111100000000001000001100000000001.The two machines rested side by side in front of the One's bi console. Ralph wasbuilt like a file cabinet sitting on two caterpillar treads Five deceptively thin manipulatorarms projected out of his body box