Then we try to tell the vintage wine from the brash newcomer. Richard Powers is a lapsed physicist, and like the lapsed members of a respected religion he has not forgotten the signs and symbols of the discipline that used to own his allegiance. He made the shift to literature, which benefits from his considerable talent, but he has not forgotten how to use his physics and, of course, his math. His books are populated by unusual intelligences of all sorts, from the precocious preschooler and the Down Syndrome baby to the old man whose mind sharpens as his cancerous body declines and the old woman who survived a physical accident but not the mental consequence when for just a few minutes her brain lacked oxygen. Each character has something important to reveal about how the human intelligence operates in either its simplest or most complex manifestations.
Human intelligence is equated to consciousness.
She may even be forming some of the deadly sins, showing jealousy and anger. I won't tell you because I hope you will input the book yourself.