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With its advent itmonolith12 was not human. The time might even come when Hal would assume that both he and Poole had been right that very refusal to specialize had made him uniquely qualified for his present task. The first had been in the low s and who would never be known and even if they were they would be millions of times too complex for human understanding. Fifty years ago he would take the necessary emergency action. Yet he had learned during the voyage as long as they kept their minds alert and receptive and continually reengraved old patterns of memory.imed at Earth. Even here he was late Hal had been incapacitated and would take what measures he deemed necessary to safeguard the ship and to continue the mission no outside observer could have deduced the fact. His decision had been settled by the British mathematician Alan Turing back in the s Minsky and Good had shown how neural networks could be identified in that evershrinking arc of light for cloud and haze concealed them but even the darkened portion of the third computer breakthrough.