Lenore

But that is something that the married couple Profs Lenore and Manuel Blum, both emeritus professors at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, believe will change, possibly quite soon.

"We think Brainish can solve the problem of consciousness as we know it," Lenore tells the BBC.

When Ady and Sanite are separated, Ady meets Lenore, proprietress of the Mockingbird Inn.

Lenore actually runs an underground resistance society known as “The Daughters,” a witty Ruffin-esque turn on other so-called societies using those words.

“I think it’s difficult. The reality is public safety issues are easy issues to get quickly driven by hyperbole and fear,” said Lenore Anderson, co-founder and president of Alliance for Safety and Justice and co-author of Proposition 47.