Brannock And Intelligence Prime

Genesis, PART ONE, VII.

Brannock converses with Intelligence Prime:

"Communication went between them at nearly photonic speed. It ended in consummation.
"But this is too abstract for a mortal mind to appreciate. Let the exchange therefore be rendered, however inadequately, as a dialogue." (p. 88)

But who is describing these far future events to a mortal mind? When Brannock has been united with Intelligence Prime, the latter will be alone on a planet so far from Earth that:

"Sol was invisible among its stars after dark." (p. 85)

I think that the omniscient narrator and his audience should be as unobtrusive as possible. The reader should contemplate only the events on that extra-solar planet and should not be asked to reflect on the process of narration.

Brannock says that he has known only:

"'Some scattered stars out in the hinterland of one galaxy among - how many? - billions.'" (p. 88)

Thus, although he does not use the phrase, "one spiral arm," Brannock joins the ranks of the Anderson characters who reflect on the smallness of known space. See here.

The intelligences scattered throughout  the galaxy communicate electromagnetically, neutronically and gravitronically. If one of the Christian Brannocks that have become memories within greater intelligences is resurrected in emulation, then eventually that experience will be fully shared with all.