in was given a reflexive chain meant  to
autonomously  fill out empty  memory  cells.  Piskunov  reckoned  that  once
saturated with impressions Utm would  be  able to  choose the best course of
action for each new  situation without human intervention. That  is the most
refined   model   of  consciousness  in  the  world.  However,   we  got  an
unanticipated   result.   Theoretically  Piskunov   allowed  for  this,  but
practically... In a word,  the new reflexive arc  created tens  of secondary
reflexes   not   anticipated  by   the  programmers.  Piskunov  dubbed  them
spontaneous reflexes. With  their emergence Utm stopped working according to
the program and started behaving.
     "And what do we do now?"
     "Well take  a different path," Nikolai Petrovich  stretched and yawned.
"We will perfect  the analyzing  abilities of  the brain  and  the  receptor
system."
     "What about the spontaneous reflex? Isn't anybody interested in that?"
     "Huh! Piskunov already thought something  up... In a word, Utms will be
the  first  ones on  unexplored  planets  and in the uncharted ocean depths.
People wont have to be put at risk... Look, Kostenko, lets go to sleep, huh?
Start working  here and you will  find out  everything, you have  my word on
that!"