A distinguished Professor of AI-neuroscience and Theory of Mind, Cayce Varin has dissident thoughts.
He differs from acceptable opinion on matters of grave importance to respectable Human Biologicals and the Federation of Pandemos, the global state.
Upon confessing his divergent theories to a Graduate Student Assistant, his life is never the same.
He is labeled a Thought Deviationist, among other damning designations.
He is arrested by a Robot Police Agent and soon released but remains a cove.