Should I tell a lie? Nicklin thought. If I can accept the idea of an intelligent galaxy—simply because it is a structure of sufficient complexity to exist as a mindon personality, what do I say about the entire universe? Is it not the ultimate structure? Is it not, therefore, the ultimate mindon personality?
Is it not… therefore… worthy of the name of God?
“I saw what everybody else saw,” he said to his loved one, and he smiled as he spoke. “Would I tell you a lie?”