![]() ![]() There is the simple issue that Mike was doing too many things at once for it to be Prof - he was the phone system, allowed null numbers to be routed to him, and was at the very least Adam Selene - holding joint conversations with Prof in the room, which would have required a perfect anticipation of everything the others might do or say for entire nights at a time. To Sail Beyond the Sunset then has Mike (in a slightly different form they basically downloaded his programs and loaded them into an existing computer with massive memory, to allow the existing computer personality and Mike's to integrate the resultant computer was referred to as 'Shiva', although it appeared that Mike could still manifest with his discrete personality at need) returning as a character, as a result of the events of 'Cat.' Had Mike just been a talking head for the Prof, it would have come out by this point. ![]() The nature of his growth thru 'Moon' is a major reason they want to acquire him Deety (a computer expert) points out that she doesn't think Mike's programs could have been developed by any other method than Mike used that is to say, by the computer, out of necessity. If you read Moon by itself, the question could be valid, but Mike, Mannie and Wyo all show up in later books, and, in fact, ' The Cat Who Walks thru Walls' has recovering Mike as a major plot point. ![]()
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