Complex sentence: In Iain M. Banks' Culture novels, starships, planets and orbitals have their own Minds: self-conscious, hyperintelligent machines originally built by humanoid species but which have outsmarted their creators by several orders of magnitude since then.
Split into simpler sentences: In Iain M. Banks' Culture novels, starships, planets and orbitals have their own Minds. These are self-conscious, hyperintelligent machines originally built by humanoid species but which have outsmarted their creators by several orders of magnitude since then.