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				there's no necessity for the Ring to be conscious - ie we don't require that hypothesis.
			
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 But then we have some rather awkward passages in the text that seem to shift Occam's Razor in the other direction.
		  
		
		
		
		
		
		
			
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				...finding a path that cannot be found, walking a road that cannot be seen, climbing a ladder that was never placed, or reading a paragraph that has no...
			 
		
		
		
		
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