In Iain M. Banks' Culture novels, starships, planets and orbitals have their own Minds: self-conscious, hyperintelligent machines originally built by humanoid species but which have outsmarted their creators by several orders of magnitude since then.
In Iain M. Banks' Culture novels, starships, planets and orbitals have their own Minds. These are self-conscious, hyperintelligent machines originally built by humanoid species but which have outsmarted their creators by several orders of magnitude since then.