Nick Emmert was just on the air with a rewardoffer-five hundred sols apiece, dead or alive. Something turn up?" "God, yes! The cops are all over the city hunting the Fuzzies they haveorders to shoot on sight. "Jack, have you had any news on the screen lately?" "No. It wasMax Fane, and for the first time that he could remember, the ColonialMarshal was excited. Jack shoved himself to his feet and put the screen on. Baby Fuzzy looked updisinterestedly, and then went back to trying to untie a figure-eight knothe had tied. " "They'll still insist that we define sapience. " "Suppose we go back to specific instances of Fuzzy behavior, and presentthem as evidence of sapience?" Brannhard asked. "How can I tell whether they form abstract ideas? How can Iprove, even, that they have ideas at all? Hell's blazes, how can I evenprove, to your satisfaction, that I think consciously?" "Working on that idea I mentioned?" Brannhard asked. To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
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