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"I'll tell you but you may not understand," Kennon said. "I'll take a chance." Kennon grinned. "All right, you asked for it. The parasite that's doing the damage is a flatworm, a trematode called Hepatodirus hominis. As I've told Blalok, it's a tricky thing.
"They'd have some equivalent of the talk-and-build-a-fire rule, based on abilities of which we can't even conceive." Maybe, Ruth thought, they might recognize us as one-tenth to as much as one-eighth sapient. No, then we'd have to recognize, say, a chimpanzee as being one-one-hundredth sapient, and a flatworm as being sapient to the order of one-billionth. "Wait a minute," she said.
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