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Nous began an experiment, basing the design off of its own construction. Nous constructed a blueprint for a system that could learn and make decisions without intervention of the gods. 

It created many permutations of this design at a variety of complexities. It gave simple ones to some of the smaller creatures, more complicated ones to large animals. Some of its most impressive designs went to the birds and the apes. It also created a new creature, an eight legged beast of the sea, the octopus. It used a non conventional but useful design.

Then he started creating a method of symbolic based reasoning to allow greater communication, this would be useful for the social apes.