"If it can indeed do those things, I believe then that it is only on the softest minds. The ones most receptive to that sort of...medicine." I have long since lost the ability to understand hope. I understand calculations and predictive calculus. I understand rational decision making. I do not understand hail mary's and long-shots and hope. Then again, as a mere accepted long ago, I never understood those things either.
"Do you then act in ways which will lend themselves to this fond remembrance?" He elaborates on this verbal historical record, but I find that I am still unmoved by it. Hubris is one thing, but there is no vanity in death. Remembered he may be, but he will not know it.
"A flaw is merely a problem to be solved. One that is indeed being worked on. There are different strains of bio-mattered added to our fluid. When we receive transfusions from the Voice are systems are given new strains to try. Drinking from humans can obfuscate this process, but it does provide new information and so we have no been strictly advised to cease this practice, though some of us have."
I shake my head. "A clever thought, but no. It is far too damaged now."
"Do you then act in ways which will lend themselves to this fond remembrance?" He elaborates on this verbal historical record, but I find that I am still unmoved by it. Hubris is one thing, but there is no vanity in death. Remembered he may be, but he will not know it.
"A flaw is merely a problem to be solved. One that is indeed being worked on. There are different strains of bio-mattered added to our fluid. When we receive transfusions from the Voice are systems are given new strains to try. Drinking from humans can obfuscate this process, but it does provide new information and so we have no been strictly advised to cease this practice, though some of us have."
I shake my head. "A clever thought, but no. It is far too damaged now."
