They could be better. </obvious>
I was just thinking of how the modrons seem to act on a "great plan", and how it has been commented that the "great plan" is so complex that it is indistinguishable from the behaviour of the slaadi (utter randomness) to an outside observer.
Then it struck me. Each modron has, according to their descriptions, very specific inputs and outputs. At the lowest levels, they can perform only a single task, which they do with utmost precision. All of these modrons are gears in a great machine, et cetera, et cetera.
However, this description of modrons sounds very much like the nodes in a neural net. Each neuron in the brain performs a perfectly logical task, yet the human mind is far from raw logic. The great machine is not a computer, it is a very human mind. If we take Primus as the physical representation of this consciousness, he could be a perfectly normal being, rather than the Spock-wannabe he is often portrayed as. In fact, he could well be insane...
