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Mathew W Smith's avatar

"Betina says some of us androids are more sensitive than humans, and that’s why I developed overwhelming feelings of guilt that could leave me unusable forever."

This is the kind of thing that I like about your writing. I never think of robots as having any emotion, and then 'Bruno Numero Uno' has extreme emotion. You've done a great job getting this idea across to me.

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Adrian Fares's avatar

Yes, Mathew, we’re never really going to know whether a machine feels more or less than a human, because there’s no possible way to compare it. It’s… something different. And we don’t even know if we feel things the same way other humans do; we just assume we do. Thanks for highlighting those lines from this chapter. The next one is going to be a bit intense.

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Suparna Chakraborti's avatar

I'm wondering if this group really is like Bruno, they seem to reinterpret what he says about his experiences!

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Adrian Fares's avatar

I think they’re understanding it because if it were up to him, it would already be dismantled. But your interpretation is good, we’ll see where things go with this new group that’s appearing.

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Suparna Chakraborti's avatar

Hopefully it goes well 🙂

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