# Quote — Iain M. Banks, Look To Windward

> Never forget I am not this silver body, Mahrai. I am not an animal brain, I am not even some attempt to produce an AI through software running on a computer. I am a Culture Mind. We are close to gods, and on the far side.
>
> We are quicker; we live faster and more completely than you do, with so many more senses, such a greater store of memories and at such a fine level of detail. We die more slowly, and we die more completely, too.

- Author: [Iain M. Banks](https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks.md)
- Book: [Look To Windward](https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/look-to-windward.md)
- Page: 316
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Iain_Banks#Look_to_Windward_(2000)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/look-to-windward/never-forget-i-am-not

## More from this book

> “You serious?”
>
> “I’m always serious, never more so than when I’m being flippant.”

p. 231 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/look-to-windward/you-serious-im-always.md)

> Believe me; democracy in action can be an unpretty sight.

p. 198 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/look-to-windward/believe-me-democracy.md)

> “Elated? Pleased?”
>
> “Those are the closest words. There is an undeniable elation in causing mayhem, in bringing about such massive destruction. As for feeling pleased, I felt pleasure that some of those who died did so because they were stupid enough to believe in gods or afterlives that do not exist, even though I felt a terrible sorrow for them as they died in their ignorance and thanks to their folly.”

p. 315 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/look-to-windward/elated-pleased-those.md)