Banks — “An electronic computer is also made up of…”

Source: (no source given) — Iain M. Banks

Book page: banks-use-of-weapons

From: Use of Weapons

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An electronic computer is also made up of matter, but organised differently; what is there so magical about the workings of the huge, slow cells of the animal brain that they can claim themselves to be conscious, but would deny a quicker, more finely-grained device of equivalent power - or even a machine hobbled so that it worked with precisely the same ponderousness - a similar distinction?