Well Banks is careful to point out that the Minds may, as far as we are concerned, be god-like but they can&#x27;t predict <i>everything</i> (for various reasons, including moral qualms about too perfect simulations of individuals possibly having their own rights) and although they are perfectly capable of reading the state of meat based &quot;minds&quot; they don&#x27;t do it as it&#x27;s taboo (hence the &quot;Grey Area&quot;).<p>Edit: The <i>Aritrary</i> says in The State of the Art:<p><i>&quot;I&#x27;m the smartest thing for a hundred light years radius, and by a factor of about a million... but even I can&#x27;t predict where a snooker ball&#x27;s going to end up after more than six collisions.&quot;</i>